Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
Empire State Building
(Em¦pire State Build|ing)
a skyscraper on Fifth Avenue, New York City, which was for several decades the tallest building in the world. When first erected, in 1930–31, it measured 381 m (1,250 ft); it currently stands at approximately 443 m (1,454 feet).
More words in this category
Alamo
Colditz
Itaipu
Jodrell Bank
Newgate
Notre Dame
Pentagon
Red Square
Science Museum
Siegfried Line
Silk Road
Stormont Castle
Tiananmen Square
Uffizi
Wembley Stadium
Nearby Words
emphasis
emphasize
emphatic
emphatically
emphysema
empire
Empire Day
empire line
Empire State
Empire State Building
Empire State of the South
empire-building
empiric
empirical
empirical formula
empiricism
emplacement
emplane
employ