Meaning

4 senses
  1. The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.

    the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

  2. The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.

    Horizont, Silhouette, Skyline

    горизо́нтgorizónt, ли́ния горизонтаlínija gorizonta

    the outline of objects seen against the sky

  3. A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.

  4. A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.

Examples

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  1. Algiers needs a more impressive skyline.

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  2. This city has a stunning skyline.

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  3. The city skyline was beautiful at night.

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  4. Lukas saw smoke rising from the downtown skyline.

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  5. You can see the whole city skyline from here.

    deVon hier kann man die ganze Stadtsilhouette sehen.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
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silhouette against city or buildings:
Deutsch
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silhouette against city or buildings:

Origin

From sky + line.

From sky + line.

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Forms

plural: skylines
Singularskyline
Pluralskylines

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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