building
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪldɪŋ
Forms: form: buildings
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks.
synonyms: construction
glosses: The act or process by which something is built; construction.
examples: text: My sister lives in that apartment building.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
text: Why doesn't Italy finish their buildings
ref: 2024 May 6, @thepunbible, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2024:
synonyms: edifice
glosses: A closed structure with walls and a roof.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Tits building.
synonyms: word: Tits building
Synonyms: word: building
word: edifice
word: wark
Hypernyms: word: structure
Hyponyms: word: house
word: palace
word: row house
word: townhouse
word: church
word: cathedral
word: synagogue
word: temple
word: basilica
word: mosque
word: tomb
word: hospital
word: library
word: monastery
word: town hall
word: city hall
word: citadel
word: museum
word: theater
word: granary
word: silo
word: factory
word: plant
word: mill
word: sawmill
word: paper mill
word: windmill
word: villa
word: apartment building
word: block of flats
word: tower block
word: apartment block
word: skyscraper
word: maisonette
word: condominium
word: pueblo
word: dormitory
word: parking garage
word: garage
word: blockhouse
word: prisonhouse
word: carriage house
word: schoolhouse
Meronyms: word: wall
word: roof
word: door
word: window
word: room
word: corridor
word: passageway
word: passage
word: attic
word: apartment
word: storey
Derived terms: abuilding
apartment building
bldg.
boatbuilding
bodybuilding
break-building
bridgebuilding
buildering
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
Related terms: word: abode
word: :Category:Buildings
word: List of building types on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
word: List of house types on Wikipedia.Wikipedia