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Edifice

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one.
  2. 2
    a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place wordnet
  3. 3
    An abstract structure, such as a school of thought, an argument, a theoretical position, etc.

    "The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed?"

Etymology

From Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, a classical borrowing of Latin aedificium (“building”), derived from aedificāre (“to build, establish”) (whence also English edify).

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