Home › Words › E › earthscraperearthscraper/ˈɝθˌskɹeɪp.ɚ/earthscraper means A building that is built underground; a subterranean skyscraper.earthscraper is pronounced /ˈɝθˌskɹeɪp.ɚ/.EtymologyFrom earth + -scraper.nounA building that is built underground; a subterranean skyscraper.e.g.“By Vox! We went down all right. Spacious rooms were here piled one upon another connected by wide staircases. This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.” — 2008, Alan Burt Akers, Gangs of Antares: Dray Prescot 45:Synonym of bellyscraper (“a piece of heavy equipment”).Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.depthscraper 78% match — Synonym of earthscraper (“type of underground building”). vs earthscraper →groundscraper 69% match — A relatively short but extremely wide or long building. vs earthscraper →cloudscraper 67% match — A very tall building; a skyscraper. vs earthscraper →earthhouse 62% match — An underground chamber or habitation; a souterrain. vs earthscraper →plyscraper 61% match — A skyscraper made (at least partly) of wood; a mass timber building. vs earthscraper →subterrany 61% match — subterranean vs earthscraper →subterraneous 61% match — Subterranean. vs earthscraper →subterranean 59% match — Below ground, under the earth, underground. vs earthscraper →