edifice
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edifice
- /ˈɛd.ɪ.fɪs/ UK, US
Where it comes from
From Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, a classical borrowing of Latin aedificium (“building”), derived from aedificāre (“to build, establish”) (whence also English edify).
noun edifices · ædifice
- A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one.
- An abstract structure, such as a school of thought, an argument, a theoretical position, etc. The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed?
