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(edɪfɪs)
Word forms: plural edifices
1. countable noun [usually adjective NOUN]
An edifice is a large and impressive building.
[formal]
The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.
2. countable noun [usually with supplement]
You can describe a system of beliefs or a traditional institution as an edifice.
[formal]
...an edifice of British constitutional tradition.
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edifice in British English

(ˈɛdɪfɪs)
noun
1. 
a building, esp a large or imposing one
2. 
a complex or elaborate institution or organization
Derived forms
edificial (ˌɛdɪˈfɪʃəl)
adjective
Word origin
C14: from Old French, from Latin aedificium, from aedificāre to build; see edify

edifice in American English

(ˈɛdɪfɪs)
noun
1. 
a building, esp. a large, imposing one
2. 
any elaborately constructed institution, organization, etc.
SIMILAR WORDS:  ˈbuilding
Word origin
ME < OFr < L aedificium, a building < aedificare: see edify

Examples of 'edifice' in a sentence
edifice

Yet they recognise that loyalty is the emotion that keeps the entire edifice in place.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This is the key to the whole agricultural edifice.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Then vanity drove men to build a boastful edifice.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Yet it was on this feeble and dodgy dossier that an entire edifice of advice was built.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The whole savings edifice is in danger.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Will they be inclined to carry on funding it or pull down the entire edifice?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The whole edifice collapses if you go there.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Perhaps it is the sense of mystery which holds the entire edifice together.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Remove those foundations and the whole edifice could come crashing down.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But what stops the entire edifice crashing down around their ears is the music.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
One that might topple the whole discredited edifice.
The Sun (2015)
But the entire edifice is riddled with rot.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Now the whole rotten edifice will come crumbling down.
The Sun (2016)
It is the relationship between the two intensely driven men upon which the whole edifice rests.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Before our eyes the whole edifice of apartheid was collapsing.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
And the whole fragile edifice would have come crumbling down.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Underlying the entire edifice was the myth of industrialization schemes based on "savings" from the countryside.
Ramirez-Faria, Carlos The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theorieson development and underdevelopment (1990)
And the whole fragile edifice teeters.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The entire edifice stinks - and the scent has been in our nostrils for a along time.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The whole edifice is not built upon valuable assets - banks own little of tangible worth.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I feared the entire edifice would collapse.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A failure of confidence in them could still bring the entire capitalist edifice tumbling down.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The entire edifice, our politics, economics and moral science is haunted by it.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)

In other languages
edifice

British English: edifice NOUN
An edifice is a large and impressive building.
The taxi driver reeled off a list of historic edifices they must not fail to visit.
  • American English: edifice
  • Brazilian Portuguese: edifício
  • Chinese: 大厦
  • European Spanish: edificio
  • French: édifice
  • German: Gebäude
  • Italian: palazzo
  • Japanese: 大建築
  • Korean: 대건축물
  • European Portuguese: edifício
  • Latin American Spanish: edificio

(noun) 
Definition
a large or impressive building
a list of historical edifices she must not fail to visit
Synonyms
building
They were on the upper floor of the building.
house
her parents' house in Warwickshire
structure
The house was a handsome four-storey brick structure.
construction
The British pavilion is an impressive steel and glass construction.
pile
a stately pile in the country
erection (formal)
The house itself is merely an erection of wooden blocks and ladders.
habitation (formal)
Behind the habitations, the sandstone cliffs rose abruptly.

Additional synonyms

in the sense of construction
Definition
something that has been constructed
The British pavilion is an impressive steel and glass construction.
Synonyms
structure,
building,
edifice,
form,
figure,
shape
in the sense of erection
The house itself is merely an erection of wooden blocks and ladders.
Synonyms
structure,
building,
construction,
pile,
edifice
in the sense of habitation
Definition
a dwelling place
Behind the habitations, the sandstone cliffs rose abruptly.
Synonyms
dwelling (formal, literary),
home,
house,
residence,
quarters,
lodging,
pad (slang, old-fashioned),
abode,
living quarters,
domicile,
dwelling house

Nearby words of
edifice

  • edible
  • edict
  • edification
  • edifice
  • edify
  • edifying
  • edit

Synonyms of 'edifice'

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