construction
English
/kənˈstɹʌkʃən/
noun
Definitions
- The process of constructing.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The trade of building structures.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- (arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- The manner in which something is built.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French construction derived from Latin cōnstructiō (a grammatical construction) root from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Gloss
strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- autoconstruction English
- bioconstruction English
- coconstruction English
- coconstructional English
- constructible English
- constructional English
- constructionally English
- constructionism English
- constructionist English
- constructionistic English
- constructive English
- constructivism English
- constructivist English
- deconstruction English
- deconstructional English
- deconstructionism English
- deconstructionist English
- destruct English
- destructible English
- destructively English
- destructiveness English
- destructivity English
- midconstruction English
- misconstruction English
- nonconstruction English
- obstruct English
- palaeoreconstruction English
- paleoreconstruction English
- postconstruction English
- praegnans constructio English
- preconstruction English
- prereconstruction English
- reconstruction English
- reconstructional English
- reconstructionism English
- reconstructionist English
- visuoconstruction English
- visuoconstructional English
- constructio Latin
- constructus Latin
- construere Latin
- construo Latin
- cōnstructiō Latin
- destructio Latin
- destructio, dēstructiōnem, dēstructiō Latin
- destructivus Latin
- destruo Latin
- dēstruō Latin
- instrumentalis Latin
- obstructio Latin
- praegnāns Latin
- strava Latin
- strues Latin
- constructie Dutch, Flemish
- *strew- Proto-Indo-European
- *straupijaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawjaną Proto-Germanic
- *streuną Proto-Germanic
- strȳnd Old English
- misconstruen Middle English
- konstruktion Danish
- construction Old French
- *strowō Proto-Italic
- стройи Old East Slavic
- obstruct
- destruct
- constructive
- destructible
- destructivity
- destructively
- constructible
- constructivism
- reconstruction
- deconstruction
- coconstruction
- constructional
- constructivist
- constructionism
- misconstruction
- bioconstruction
- destructiveness
- nonconstruction
- preconstruction
- constructionist
- midconstruction
- constructionally
- autoconstruction
- deconstructional
- postconstruction
- reconstructional
- coconstructional
- visuoconstruction
- reconstructionist
- reconstructionism
- deconstructionist
- prereconstruction
- deconstructionism
- constructionistic
- paleoreconstruction
- visuoconstructional
- palaeoreconstruction
- praegnans constructio