substruction

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English

Etymology

From Latin substructio, from substruere, substructum (“to build beneath”), from sub (“under”) + struere (“to build”).

Noun

substruction (plural substructions)

  1. (architecture) underbuilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “substruction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

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Noun

substruction f (plural substructions)

  1. substruction
  2. underbuilding

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