building
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪldɪŋ
- Hyphenation: build‧ing
Etymology 1
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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 paper
- building permit
- building site
- building society
- building trade
- buildingwide
- building worker
- burn building
- carriagebuilding
- castlebuilding
- coachbuilding
- condo building
- deckbuilding
- duck building
- 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
- modelbuilding
- model building
- modular building
- moundbuilding
- mountain building
- multibuilding
- nation-building
- nestbuilding
- newbuilding
- New Buildings
- nonbuilding
- office building
- omnibuilding
- organbuilding
- outbuilding
- peacebuilding
- pole building
- red building paper
- roadbuilding
- ship-building
- shipbuilding
- sick building
- stakebuilding
- sunken featured building
- teambuilding
- team building
- tight building syndrome
- toolbuilding
- wagonbuilding
- white-glove building
- wordbuilding
- worldbuilding
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]act or process of building
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closed structure with walls and a roof
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Further reading
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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
- 1968, Gérard Bourgeois, Jean-Max Rivière, “Le diable est anglais”, performed by Brigitte Bardot:
- Moi je l'ai vu remonter Carnaby Street / Je l'ai suivi et je sais où il habite / Dans un building de cent mètres de haut / Où sur chaque porte est inscrit "Satan and Co"
- I saw him go up Carnaby Street / I followed him and know where he lives / In a tower one hundred meters tall / With "Satan and Co" written on every door
- 1990, Antoine de Caunes, C'est bon mais c'est chaud, Paris: Pocket, →ISBN, page 71:
- Je contemplai évasivement l'alignement des buildings, tandis que nous redescendions vers Times Square, par Broadway, un peu plus secoués qu'un canoë s'approchant des Niagara.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1994, Serge Brussolo, Le Chien de minuit, Paris: Librairie des Champs-Élysées, published 1997, →ISBN, page 44:
- D'en bas, des trottoirs, on n'avait pas conscience de l'importance de l'azur, les buildings le cachaient, on n'en apercevait que des portions congrues.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “building”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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