Usually means: Outline of city against sky.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. skyline: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. skyline: Merriam-Webster
  3. skyline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. skyline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. skyline: Collins English Dictionary
  6. skyline: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skyline, skyline: Wordnik
  8. skyline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. skyline: Wiktionary
  10. skyline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. skyline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. skyline: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. skyline: Dictionary.com
  14. skyline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SkyLine (Frankfurt), Skyline (Steve Howe album), Skyline (Yann Tiersen album), Skyline (band), Skyline (construction set), Skyline (disambiguation), Skyline (horse), Skyline (software), Skyline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. skyline: Rhymezone
  17. skyline: FreeDictionary.org
  18. skyline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. skyline: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skyline: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skyline: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See skylines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.
noun:  The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
noun:  A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.
noun:  (journalism) A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.
verb:  (transitive) To outline something against the sky.
verb:  (databases, transitive) To filter by means of the skyline operator.
noun:  (Cincinnati) food, often Cincinnati chili, purchased from a Skyline Chili restaurant.
noun:  (databases) Short for skyline operator. [(databases) A proposed operator, for use in database queries, that filters out results that are worse than others according to multiple criteria.]

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