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Definitions of building:

noun: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
Example: "There was a three-story building on the corner"
noun: the occupants of a building
Example: "The entire building complained about the noise"
noun: the act of constructing or building something
Example: "His hobby was the building of boats"
noun: the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings
Example: "Workers in the building trades"

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to building: (594 results)
Synonyms:
augmentative, augmenting, construction, edifice, heightening, increasing

Contains:
annex, annexe, antechamber, anteroom, corner, cornerstone, court, courtyard, cullis, elevator, entrance hall, extension, exterior door, floor, foundation stone, foyer, frame, hall, heat, heating, heating plant, heating system, house painting, interior door, level, lift, lobby, masonry, nook, outside door, painting, plumbery, plumbing, quoin, roof, roofing, room, scantling, shaft, sheet-metal work, skeleton, staircase, stairs, stairway, steps, storey, story, stud, underframe, vestibule, wall, window, wing

More general:
assemblage, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, creating from raw materials, gathering, structure

More specific:
abattoir, airdock, apartment building, apartment house, architecture, assembly, aviary, bagnio, bakery, bathhouse, bathing machine, bawdyhouse, bird sanctuary, bordello, bowling alley, brothel, butchery, casino-hotel, cathouse, center, centre, chancellery, chapterhouse, club, clubhouse, courthouse, dead room, diplomatic building, dry walling, eating house, eating place, erecting, erection, fabrication, farm building, feedlot, firetrap, gambling den, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house, gazebo, glasshouse, grading, greenhouse, hall of fame, hangar, health facility, hotel, hotel-casino, house, house of god, house of ill repute, house of prayer, house of prostitution, house of worship, house-raising, jerry-building, leveling, library, medical building, ministry, morgue, mortuary, nursery, observatory, office block, office building, opium den, outbuilding, packinghouse, pentagon, place of worship, planetarium, presbytery, repair shed, restaurant, rest house, rink, road construction, roman building, rotunda, ruin, school, schoolhouse, shambles, shipbuilding, shooting gallery, signal box, skating rink, skyscraper, slaughterhouse, sporting house, statehouse, student union, summerhouse, tavern, temple, theater, theatre, town hall, volary, whorehouse

Often used in the same context:
build, design, ding, office

Appears in the definition of:
., access, acreage, aesthetically, agglutination, airplane mechanics, alfresco, andrew jackson downing, apse, apsis, architecturally, architectural ornament, asbestos abatement, ashlar, atrium, attic fan, auto mechanics, back door, back entrance, backstairs, balcony, ban, bank, bank building, barn, baroque, barrack, basilica, battlemented, beacon hill, bearing wall, befouled, belfry, block, bluestone, bombastically, boy scouts of america, brain coral, breeze block, brick, bricklayer, bricks and mortar, builder, building complex, building department, building permit, building supply house, building supply store, buildup, bullfinch, burglar, burglary, buttress, buttressing, caaba, campanile, capaciousness, capitol, capitol building, capitol hill, capstone, carriage house, casino, castellated, castle, castled, cathedral, catwalk, cement, central heating, chalk line, charles bullfinch, charnel, charnel house, chicken coop, chimney, cinder block, circulating library, citronwood, city hall, cladding, clamor, clangor, clear, clinker block, coach house, colloquially, commodiousness, complex, compound, concourse, concrete, concrete jungle, condemn, condemnation, construction worker, constructor, consulate, consume, conventicle, coop, copestone, coping stone, corner post, crawlspace, crawl space, creep, crenelated, crenellated, crown, curtilage, customhouse, customshouse, dacrydium franklinii, damp course, damp-proof course, day school, debris storm, debris surge, dedicate, dedication, deface, degree day, demolish, demolishing, deoxyadenosine monophosphate, deoxycytidine monophosphate, deoxyguanosine monophosphate, deoxythymidine monophosphate, develop, developed, domestic terrorism, door, doorway, dorm, dormitory, downing, downstair, downstairs, drip loop, drydock, dry dock, dumbwaiter, electrostatic generator, electrostatic machine, elevator shaft, ell, embassy, emergency exit, esthetically, exterior, facade, face, facelift, face lift, face lifting, facility, facing, fallen, fencing, fencing material, fenestration, field house, fieldstone, fire escape, firewall, first floor, flag, flooring, floor plan, food elevator, forecourt, fouled, foursquare, framework, french window, fright, frighten, frontage, frontal, front door, front entrance, furnace room, gadgeteer, gallery, gambling casino, gangway, garage, gas fitting, gin mill, glorify, government building, graving dock, ground floor, ground level, ground plan, grounds, grow over, gut, hard hat, harpulla, harpullia cupanioides, headstone, healthcare facility, heat pump, hencoop, henhouse, high-rise, horse barn, houses of parliament, huon pine, ijsselmeer, independence hall, indoora, indoors, infrequently, inside, insidea, installation, institution, instruct, intercom, intercommunication system, interior, interphone, isometric exercise, isometrics, janitor, japan, just as, kaaba, keep up, key, keystone, ladies' room, lagarostrobus franklinii, lancewood, land area, lath and plaster, lean-to tent, lending library, lightning conductor, lightning rod, lincoln memorial, litter basket, litter-basket, litterbin, loggia, lost-and-found, lumber, mangrove, mantle, marble, marcus ulpius traianus, mechanic's lien, meetinghouse, mews, militarise, militarize, morale builder, moving in, multilevel, nest, nester, nihon, nippon, nipr, noah, nrti, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, oast house, occupancy, occupation, offset, operation, outdoors, out of doors, outside, overlay, overlayer, parvis, penetrate, penthouse, peristyle, picturesquely, plant department, plat, plumbing fixture, plumbing system, porch, porte-cochere, portico, pothouse, powderize, powder room, preassemble, prefabricate, prefabrication, pressure dome, proportion, pub, public house, quarrying, radiant heating, rathole, razing, reek, reface, renter, repair, residence hall, reverberate, revolutionary proletarian initiative nuclei, revolutionary proletarian nucleus, rhizophora mangle, ribbon development, riser, riser main, riser pipe, riser pipeline, romulus, roof garden, roofing material, room access, roominess, roundhouse, run, saloon, sandarac, sandblast, scaffold, screen, screen door, set, set-back, setoff, shake, sheathing, shingle, shoebox, shore, side door, side entrance, siding, sketch, snapline, snap line, soffit, soil bank, space, spaciousness, spire, sports arena, spring vetch, squat, stable, staff, stalls, steeple, step out, sticks and stone, stone, storied, stretcher, structural member, student residence, studio, stunt, subdivider, sumptuously, surrender, sway, sweat equity, taking possession, taphouse, tap house, tearing down, telco building, telecom hotel, tenant, the hill, threshold, timber, tower, tower block, traffic control, trajan, treasury, turret, undeveloped, upheaval, uplift, upstair, upstairs, upthrow, upthrust, vague, van de graaff generator, veneer, ventilating system, ventilation, ventilation shaft, ventilation system, veranda, verandah, verger, vespid, vespid wasp, vetch, vicia sativa, voussoir, walk-through, walk-up, walk-up apartment, washhouse, wattle and daub, well, white house, wimshurst machine, window screen, yard

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