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What is "low-rise"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
low-rise
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There are many advantages to low-rise buildings.
▪ traditional, low-rise housing
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the housing development took the form of low-rise, garden city-style estates.
▪ But it is not an unpleasant place, low-rise, with most rooms in verandah-ed cottages overlooking garden courtyards.
▪ This is probably due to the large preponderance of low-rise multi-storey council housing.
▪ Traditional building materials tend to imply low-rise housing, and urban planners have an ambivalent attitude to low-rise.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
low-rise

low-rise \low-rise\ adj. Lower than the highest heights; -- used of buildings of one or only a few stories; as, a low-rise apartment building. [Narrower terms: three-story, three-storied, three-storey, three-storeyed] high-rise

Wiktionary
low-rise

Etymology 1 n. (context lang=en architecture) A building of no more than a few stories. Etymology 2

a. (context lang=en fashion) pertaining to lowerbody clothing whose waistlines does not reach the waist, but hangs along the hips

WordNet
low-rise

adj. used of buildings of one or only a few stories and usually no elevator; low; "looking out over the roofs of low-rise apartment buildings" [ant: high-rise]

Wikipedia
Low-rise

A low-rise is a building that is only a few stories tall or any building that is shorter than a high-rise, though others include the classification of mid-rise.

Emporis defines a low-rise as "an enclosed structure below 35 metres [115 feet] which is divided into regular floor levels." The city of Toronto defines a mid-rise as a building between 4 and 12 stories. Also they have elevators.

Low-rise (fashion)

Low-rise is a style of clothing designed to sit low on, or below, the hips. The style can also be called lowcut, hipster, or hip-hugger. and can apply to garments worn by males or females. The term can be applied to all garments that cover the wearer's crotch area, including trousers, jeans, shorts, skirts, panties, briefs, bikinis, pantyhose, and tights.

Usage examples of "low-rise".

The only high-rise for miles around, the twelve-story newly finished hotel towered over its low-rise Old Peoria neighbors, its layers of lighted windows glowing like beacons as Joanna made her way north on Grand Avenue.

A phallic church steeple rose above the low-rises a couple of blocks away.