# building
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪldɪŋ
* Hyphenation: build‧ing

### Etymology 1

From Middle English byldynge, buyldyng, byldyng, buldynge, buldyng, boldyng, equivalent to build +‎ -ing. Compare also related Middle English bold (“edifice, castle, mansion”), from Old English bold (“building, dwelling, house”).

#### Noun

building (countable and uncountable, plural buildings)
* (uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.
    Synonym: construction
    The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks.
* (countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
    Synonyms: edifice; see also Thesaurus:building
    My sister lives in that apartment building.
** 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks.
** 2024 May 6, @thepunbible, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 28 June 2024:Why doesn't Italy finish their buildings
* (mathematics) Synonym of Tits building

##### Derived terms

* abuilding
* apartment building
* bldg.
* boatbuilding
* bodybuilding
* break-building
* bridgebuilding
* buildering
* building
* building and pest
* building block
* building code
* building envelope
* buildingful
* buildingless
* buildinglike
* building material
* building paper
* building permit
* building site
* building society
* building trade
* buildingwide
* building worker
* burn building
* carriagebuilding
* castlebuilding
* coachbuilding
* condo building
* deckbuilding
* Elvis has left the building
* empire-building
* forebuilding
* go jump off a building
* green building
* has left the building
* homebuilding
* housebuilding
* institution-building
* interbuilding
* intrabuilding
* jerry-building
* legislative building
* link building
* main building
* megabuilding
* modelbuilding
* model building
* moundbuilding
* mountain building
* multibuilding
* nation-building
* nestbuilding
* newbuilding
* New Buildings
* nonbuilding
* office building
* omnibuilding
* organbuilding
* outbuilding
* peacebuilding
* pole building
* red building paper
* roadbuilding
* shipbuilding
* ship-building
* sick building
* stakebuilding
* sunken featured building
* team building
* teambuilding
* tight building syndrome
* toolbuilding
* wagonbuilding
* white-glove building
* wordbuilding
* worldbuilding

##### Translations

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#### Further reading

* building on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

From Middle English beeldynge, equivalent to build +‎ -ing.

#### Verb

building
* present participle and gerund of build

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English building.

### Pronunciation

* (France) IPA: /bil.diŋ/
* (Canada) IPA: /bɪl.dɪŋ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

building m (plural buildings)
* tower, skyscraper (tall building)
    Synonyms: gratte-ciel, tour

### Further reading

* “building”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.