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Defenition of the word building

    • Defenition of the word building

      • Structure with a roof and walls, such as a house or factory.
      • The process of constructing.
      • increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree; "muscle-building exercises"
      • the occupants of a building; "the entire building complained about the noise"
      • a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
      • rising progressively; "the building suspense"; "the heightening drama"
      • the act of constructing or building something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
      • the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"
      • the act of constructing something
      • the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
      • a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
      • the occupants of a building

    Synonyms for the word building

      • augmentative
      • augmenting
      • construction
      • edifice
      • heightening
      • house
      • shop
      • sky-skraper
      • structure

    Similar words in the building

      • building
      • building's
      • buildings
      • increasing
      • rising

    Meronymys for the word building

      • annex
      • annexe
      • antechamber
      • anteroom
      • corner
      • cornerstone
      • court
      • courtyard
      • cullis
      • elevator
      • entrance hall
      • extension
      • exterior door
      • floor
      • foundation stone
      • foyer
      • frame
      • hall
      • heat
      • heating
      • heating plant
      • heating system
      • house painting
      • interior door
      • level
      • lift
      • lobby
      • masonry
      • nook
      • outside door
      • painting
      • plumbery
      • plumbing
      • quoin
      • roof
      • roofing
      • room
      • scantling
      • shaft
      • sheet-metal work
      • skeleton
      • staircase
      • stairs
      • stairway
      • steps
      • storey
      • story
      • stud
      • underframe
      • vestibule
      • wall
      • window
      • wing

    Hyponyms for the word building

      • abattoir
      • apartment building
      • apartment house
      • architecture
      • assembly
      • aviary
      • bagnio
      • bathhouse
      • bathing machine
      • bawdyhouse
      • bird sanctuary
      • bordello
      • bowling alley
      • brothel
      • butchery
      • casino-hotel
      • cathouse
      • center
      • centre
      • chapterhouse
      • club
      • clubhouse
      • crenelation
      • crenellation
      • dead room
      • dorm
      • dormitory
      • dry walling
      • eatery
      • eating house
      • eating place
      • erecting
      • erection
      • fabrication
      • farm building
      • feedlot
      • firetrap
      • gambling den
      • gambling hell
      • gambling house
      • gaming house
      • gazebo
      • glasshouse
      • government building
      • grading
      • greenhouse
      • hall
      • Hall of Fame
      • health facility
      • healthcare facility
      • hotel
      • hotel-casino
      • house
      • house of God
      • house of ill repute
      • house of prayer
      • house of prostitution
      • house of worship
      • house-raising
      • Houses of Parliament
      • Independence Hall
      • jerry-building
      • leveling
      • library
      • medical building
      • ministry
      • morgue
      • mortuary
      • nursery
      • observatory
      • office block
      • office building
      • opium den
      • outbuilding
      • packinghouse
      • place of worship
      • planetarium
      • presbytery
      • residence hall
      • rest house
      • restaurant
      • rink
      • road construction
      • Roman building
      • rotunda
      • ruin
      • rustication
      • school
      • schoolhouse
      • shambles
      • ship building
      • shipbuilding
      • shooting gallery
      • signal box
      • signal tower
      • skating rink
      • skyscraper
      • slaughterhouse
      • sporting house
      • student residence
      • student union
      • summerhouse
      • tap house
      • tavern
      • telco building
      • telecom hotel
      • temple
      • theater
      • theatre
      • volary
      • whorehouse

    Hypernyms for the word building

      • assemblage
      • business
      • business enterprise
      • commercial enterprise
      • construction
      • creating from raw materials
      • gathering
      • structure

    Antonyms for the word building

      • bulldozing
      • demolition
      • destruction
      • explosion
      • knocking down
      • levelling
      • razing
      • ruin
      • wrecking

    Idioms for the word building

      • building society

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