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Word entry · 7 letters

edifice

Best crossword clue

"Large building"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɛd.ɪ.fɪs/Part of speech nounSorted cdeefiiStarts with EEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

Word origin

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).

Used in a sentence

  • The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed?
  • With a great thump on the table, Poirot demolished his carefully built up edifice.

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