Many of you think of living in a different country. I think about living on a different moon or planet, or in a spatial superstructure, as in a space station, as I see in sci-fi.
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Superstructure
Synonyms for "superstructure" (18 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (9)
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Translations
43 translations across 31 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- վերնաշենք noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- üstqurum noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Basque
1 entries- gainegitura noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Bengali
1 entries- উপরিকাঠামো noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Bulgarian
1 entries- надстро́йка noun (nautical: structure above deck)
Catalan
1 entries- superestructura noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 上層建築 /上层建筑 noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Czech
1 entries- nadstavba noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Estonian
1 entries- pealisehitus noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Finnish
2 entries- ylärakenne noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- ylärakenne noun (the social sphere of ideology)
French
1 entries- superstructure noun (the social sphere of ideology)
German
3 entries- Aufbauten noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- Überbau noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- Überbau noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Hungarian
2 entries- felépítmény noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- felépítmény noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Indonesian
1 entries- suprastruktur noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Japanese
1 entries- 上部構造 noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Korean
1 entries- 상부구조 noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Latin
1 entries- superstructura noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Macedonian
2 entries- надградба noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- надградба noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- overbygg noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- overbygning noun (nautical: structure above deck)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- overbygg noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- overbygning noun (nautical: structure above deck)
Persian
1 entries- روبنا noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Polish
3 entries- nadbudowa noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- nadbudowa noun (the social sphere of ideology)
- nadbudówka noun (nautical: structure above deck)
Portuguese
2 entries- superestrutura noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- superestrutura noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਉਸਾਰ noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Russian
2 entries- надстро́йка noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- надстро́йка noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Slovak
1 entries- nadstavba noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Spanish
2 entries- superestructura noun (nautical: structure above deck)
- superestructura noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Swedish
1 entries- överbyggnad noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Tagalog
1 entries- superestruktura noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Turkish
1 entries- üstyapı noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kiến trúc thượng tầng noun (the social sphere of ideology)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The Wards are open-topped, with skyscrapers rising from the superstructure. Towers are sealed against vacuum, as the breathable atmosphere envelope is only maintained to a height of about seven meters. The atmosphere is contained by the centrifugal force of rotation and a "membrane" of dense, colorless sulphur hexafluoride gas, held in place by carefully managed mass effect fields.
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The superstructure evolves more slowly and is more resistant to change than the economic infrastructure, especially in the modern industrial age of advanced capitalism.
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