English Online Dictionary. What means construction? What does construction mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English construccioun, construction, from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruere.
Morphologically construct + -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈstɹʌkʃən/
- Rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Noun
construction (countable and uncountable, plural constructions)
- The process of constructing.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The trade of building structures.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- The manner in which something is built.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
Synonyms
- building
- construal
Antonyms
- destruction
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- “construction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “construction”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “construction”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnstructiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃/
Noun
construction f (plural constructions)
- construction
Derived terms
- matériau de construction
Related terms
- construire
Descendants
- → Turkish: konstrüksiyon
Further reading
- “construction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.