Word Type

Noun

The word "construction" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

destruction misconstruction

Typical Location

roadblock

Capable Of

supply jobs

Causes Desire

cross street

Derived Terms

Cayley-Dickson construction Kantor-Koecher-Tits construction Wythoff construction autoconstruction ba construction bioconstruction coconstruction construction barrel construction battalion construction drum construction grammar construction helmet construction language construction paper construction permit construction point construction site construction soldier construction unit construction worker constructional constructionism constructionist constructionistic deconstruction loose construction malconstruction megaconstruction metaconstruction midconstruction misconstruction narrow construction nonconstruction postconstruction preconstruction pregnant construction reconstruction rule of strict construction strict construction turn construction unit under construction visuoconstruction

Derived From

construe

Context

arts geometry grammar

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

artefact artifact business business enterprise cerebration commercial enterprise constituent creating from raw materials grammatical constituent intellection interpretation mathematical operation mathematical process mentation operation thinking thought thought process

Type Of (IsA)

commercial enterprise constituent creating from raw materials interpretation making mathematical process thinking

Related Terms

build building building buildings building industry building process building work buildings collage compass con con truck construct constructing constructionless constructive construing cranes group house house building industry interpretation labor making making things manner manual manual labor manufacture meaning meaningful model phrase process road road work shun site straightedge struck struck shun structure structures trade truck word work workers yes yes yes

Synonym Network

building structure

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.