Landscraper
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Landscraper is a noun meaning A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
Meaning
A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
More Meanings
- A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
- (nonstandard) A gardener or gardener.
Example Sentences
"I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . ."
"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.
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.
Word Forms
- landscrapers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include megabuilding, megastructure, megaconstruction, mega-structure, omnibuilding, megamansion.
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