Synonyms for construction

Noun

1. construction, building, creating from raw materials

usage: the act of constructing or building something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"

2. construction, building, commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business

usage: the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"

3. structure, construction, artifact, artefact

usage: a thing constructed; 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. construction, grammatical construction, expression, constituent, grammatical constituent

usage: a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"

5. construction, mental synthesis, thinking, thought, cerebration, intellection, mentation

usage: the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought

6. construction, twist, interpretation

usage: an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

7. construction, mathematical process, mathematical operation, operation

usage: drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"