Meaning of construction in English

1. Pronunciation

   /kənˈstrəkʃ(ə)n/

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1. Noun

   construction

   Etymology

   late Middle English: via Old French from Latin constructio(n-), from construere‘heap together’ (see construct)

   Definitions

   1. the act of constructing or building something

   Examples

   • « during the construction we had to take a detour »
   • « his hobby was the building of boats »
2. 2. the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings

   Examples

   • « their main business is home construction »
   • « workers in the building trades »
3. 3. a thing constructed

   Examples

   • « a complex construction or entity »
   • « the structure consisted of a series of arches »
   • « she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons »
4. 4. a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

   Examples

   • « I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner »

   Antonyms

   • misconstruction
5. 5. the creation of a construct

   Examples

   • « the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought »
6. 6. an interpretation of a text or action

   Examples

   • « they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct »
7. 7. drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem

   Examples

   • « the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem »