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

15 sentences
  1. Algiers needs a more impressive skyline.

  2. This city has a stunning skyline.

  3. The city skyline was beautiful at night.

  4. Lukas saw smoke rising from the downtown skyline.

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

    deVon hier kann man die ganze Stadtsilhouette sehen. — Waldelfe · CC BY 2.0 FR

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
silhouette against city or buildings:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
silhouette against city or buildings:

Origin

From sky + line.

From sky + line.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: skylines
Singularskyline
Pluralskylines

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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