landscraper
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
noun
A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
Example Sentences
- "But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask."
- ""We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex."
- ""I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . .""