superstructure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
All that part of a building above the basement.
The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values.

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superstructure superstructures

From super- + structure.

base infrastructure substructure

superstructural

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