Definition:

(invariable noun*) skyscraper

Mon père travaille dans un gratte-ciel - My dad works in a skyscraper

Il y a beaucoup de gratte-ciel à New York - There are a lot of skyscrapers in New York

Related: gratter - to scrape or scratch; ciel - sky; le grattement - scratching; le gratte-dos - back-scratcher; le gratte-pieds - shoe-scraper

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*Plurals of compound nouns - see the section "verb + noun"

Pronunciation: [graht syehl]