Hypernyms for "construction"
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adjunct
airdock
altar
arcade
arch
area
arena
assembly
balance
balcony
bascule
boarding
body
bowl
bridge
building
building complex
cardcastle
cardhouse
card-house
catchment
clause
coil
colonnade
column
complement
complex
corner
counterbalance
crenelation
crenellation
cross
crystallization
deathtrap
defence
defense
defensive structure
divider
door
dry walling
edifice
entablature
equilibrium
equipoise
erecting
erection
establishment
fabrication
false bottom
floor
fountain
gestation
grading
guide
hangar
helix
hill
honeycomb
house of cards
house-raising
housing
hull
impediment
impedimenta
involution
jerry-building
jungle gym
lamination
landing
landing place
level
leveling
living accommodations
lodging
lookout
lookout station
masonry
memorial
monument
mound
observation tower
observatory
obstructer
obstruction
obstructor
offset
partition
phrase
pillar
platform
porch
post and lintel
predicator
prefab
projection
public works
quadrature
quoin
repair shed
road construction
rustication
sail
set-back
setoff
shelter
ship building
shipbuilding
shipway
shoebox
sign
signboard
slipway
span
spiral
sports stadium
stadium
storey
story
superstructure
supporting structure
tower
transept
trestlework
vaulting
volute
ways
weapons platform
wellhead
whorl
wind tunnel
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.