building
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
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.
- (mathematics) Synonym of Tits building
Derived terms edit
- 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 permit
- building site
- building society
- building trade
- buildingwide
- building worker
- carriagebuilding
- castlebuilding
- coachbuilding
- 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
- model building
- modelbuilding
- moundbuilding
- mountain building
- multibuilding
- nation-building
- nestbuilding
- newbuilding
- New Buildings
- nonbuilding
- office building
- omnibuilding
- organbuilding
- outbuilding
- peacebuilding
- pole building
- roadbuilding
- shipbuilding
- ship-building
- sick building
- stakebuilding
- sunken featured building
- teambuilding
- team building
- tight building syndrome
- toolbuilding
- wagonbuilding
- wordbuilding
- worldbuilding
Translations edit
act or process of building
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closed structure with walls and a roof
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Further reading edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English beeldynge, equivalent to build + -ing.
Verb edit
building
- present participle and gerund of build
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English building.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
building m (plural buildings)
- tower, skyscraper (tall building)
- Synonyms: gratte-ciel, tour
Further reading edit
- “building”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.