English Explanatory Dictionary

construction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of constructing.
  2. Anything that has been constructed.
  3. The trade of building structures.
  4. A building, model or some other structure.
  5. A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
  6. The manner in which something is built.
  7. A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
  8. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
  9. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
  10. A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

Pronunciation

/kənˈstɹʌkʃən/ en-us-construction.ogg

Word forms

construction constructions

Etymology

From Middle English construccioun, construction, from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruere. Morphologically construct + -ion.

Synonyms

building construal

Antonyms

destruction

Derived words

autoconstruction ba construction bioconstruction Cayley-Dickson construction coconstruction constructional construction barrel construction battalion construction drum construction grammar construction helmet constructionism constructionist constructionistic construction language construction paper construction permit construction point construction site construction soldier construction unit construction worker deconstruction Kantor-Koecher-Tits construction loose construction malconstruction megaconstruction metaconstruction midconstruction misconstruction narrow construction nonconstruction postconstruction preconstruction pregnant construction reconstruction rule of strict construction sponge construction strict construction turn construction unit under construction visuoconstruction Wythoff construction

Translations

Arabic: مَبْنَى Arabic: بِنَاء Azerbaijani: tikinti Azerbaijani: tikili Azerbaijani: bina Bashkir: ҡоролма Bulgarian: сгра́да Bulgarian: постро́йка Chinese Mandarin: 建築 /建筑 Czech: konstrukce Esperanto: konstruaĵo Finnish: rakenne Finnish: rakennelma Georgian: შენობა German: Bauwerk Hebrew: מִבְנֶה Hindi: इमारत Hungarian: szerkezet Hungarian: konstrukció Irish: déantús Japanese: 建物 Japanese: 建設物 Japanese: ビル Latgalian: stateiba Latgalian: budaveiba Latvian: būve Polish: budowla Portuguese: construção Romanian: structură Russian: строе́ние Russian: построе́ние Russian: констру́кция Russian: постро́йка Scottish Gaelic: togail Serbo-Croatian: констру̀кција Serbo-Croatian: konstrùkcija Turkish: yapı Turkish: konstrüksiyon Ottoman Turkish: یاپی Urdu: عِمارَت Welsh: adeilad Welsh: adeiladaeth
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