Earthscraper

Quick meaning: Earthscraper is a noun meaning (science fiction, architecture) A building that is built underground; a subterranean skyscraper.

Meaning

(science fiction, architecture) A building that is built underground; a subterranean skyscraper.

More Meanings

1. (construction, mining) Synonym of bellyscraper (“a piece of heavy equipment”).

Example Sentences

So then I dreamed up a subterranean skyscraper (or,if you will, an earthscraper) with various floors, each of them constituting a different infernal abode;

By Vox! We went down all right. Spacious rooms were here piled one upon another connected by wide staircases. This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.

The earthscraper burst from the tunnel into daylight, sparks trailing. Elara turned hard against the wheel, corrected itstrajectory and spun one hundred and eighty degrees into a brigade of sentinels their weapons drawn.

Word Forms

• earthscrapers
• earth-scraper
• earth scraper

Synonyms for earthscraper

Depending on context, synonyms include depthscraper, bellyscraper.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cloudscraper, seascraper, groundscraper, subterrene, bellyscraper, landscraper.

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