SKYLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skyline mean? 

• SKYLINE (noun)
  The noun SKYLINE has 2 senses:

1. the outline of objects seen against the sky

2. the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

  Familiarity information: SKYLINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKYLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outline of objects seen against the sky

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("skyline" is a kind of...):

lineation; outline (the line that appears to bound an object)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

apparent horizon; horizon; sensible horizon; skyline; visible horizon

Hypernyms ("skyline" is a kind of...):

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

Holonyms ("skyline" is a part of...):

linear perspective; perspective (the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer)

 Context examples 

To the left was a hard skyline unbroken by a sail.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For three days we steamed north-westwards up a stream which even here, a thousand miles from its mouth, was still so enormous that from its center the two banks were mere shadows upon the distant skyline.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)