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Synonyms for edifice

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ed-uh-fis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛd ə fɪs

Définition of edifice

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French edifice "building," from Latin aedificium "building," from aedificare "to erect a building," from aedis, variant of aedes "temple, sanctuary," usually a single edifice without partitions, also, in the plural, "dwelling house, building," originally "a place with a hearth" + the root of facere "to make" (see factitious).
  • Ædis is from PIE *aidh- "to burn" (cf. Greek aithein "to burn," Sanskrit inddhe "burst into flames," Old Irish aed "fire," Welsh aidd "heat, zeal," Old High German eit "funeral pile"), from root *ai- "to burn."
  • noun structure
Example sentences :
  • A gush of smoke came from a chimney in the rear of the edifice.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • No, the truth is absolute, not a stone of the edifice shall be changed.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • It would be the old question of revolt against the edifice men have built.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • I have laid the foundations deep, that the edifice might endure.
  • Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
  • It certainly was not the sentiment with which hitherto I have regarded this edifice.
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. » by Charles James Lever
  • The edifice had a chandelier and candle sconces and two low galleries.
  • Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle
  • It was Darwin who put the crown on the edifice by his theory of natural selection.
  • Extract from : « Evolution in Modern Thought » by Ernst Haeckel
  • The style of the edifice is Romanesque with a genuine Lombardic tower.
  • Extract from : « The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. » by Various
  • The front of the edifice, ornamented with three rows of columns, faced the south.
  • Extract from : « Pagan and Christian Rome » by Rodolfo Lanciani

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