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Noun: World Trade Center
  1. Twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built 1368 feet tall in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001
    "The World Trade Center dominated the Manhattan skyline";
    - WTC, twin towers

Type of: skyscraper

Part of: Big Apple [informal], Gotham [US, informal], Greater New York, New York, New York City, NYC

Encyclopedia: World Trade Center