Is there a general term for a multi-story building? 3~5~10 floors.
There is edifice, but I suspect is not a common word in spoken English.
There are no single words for a multi-storey (BrE) building as far as I know, except for skyscraper or tower, but they are much higher .
There are different terms depending on usage but not on height:
Multi-storey car park
Block of flats
Office block
High-rise
Last edited by emsr2d2; 04-Oct-2011 at 08:56.
The second (and, in the absence of any other information, the fourth) are residential. Note that numbering of the floors in multi-storey buildings differs between Br E and Am E: in the US, '1st 2nd 3rd 4th floors' = in the UK 'Ground floor, 1st 2nd 3rd floors'. I don't know what happens in Canada.
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