low-rise

[ loh-rahyz ]

adjective
  1. having a comparatively small number of floors, as a motel or townhouse, and usually no elevator.

  2. (of pants) having a waistline placed at or just below the hips: low-rise jeans.

noun
  1. a low-rise building.

Origin of low-rise

1
First recorded in 1955–60; on the model of high-rise

Words Nearby low-rise

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How to use low-rise in a sentence

  • Carrie looked out into the soft moonlight, and saw a mounted figure cut against the sky on the crest of a low rise.

    By Right of Purchase | Harold Bindloss

British Dictionary definitions for low-rise

low-rise

adjective
  1. of or relating to a building having only a few storeys: Compare high-rise

noun
  1. such a building

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