Synonyms for EDIFICE
ˈɛd ə fɪsed·i·fice

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1. edifice

   Synonyms:
   structure, building, tenement, fabric

   Antonyms:
   ruin, heap, demolition, dismantlement

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1. building, edificenoun

   a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

   "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"

   Synonyms:
   construction, edifice, building

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1. edificenoun

   Synonyms:
   building, fabric, structure

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1. List of paraphrases for "edifice":

   building, édifice, construction, structure

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1. Dr. Jose P. Rizal:

   It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice. (El Filibusterismo)

2. Martin Luther King:

   True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

3. Curtis Sliwa:

   This is signage that is evident almost everywhere across the State of New York, where the state has any kind of facility, park -- any kind of edifice, any kind of building, let this be the first of many changes to come for the incoming governor, lieutenant governor now, Kathy Hochul.

4. Andre Maurois:

   A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

5. Laurie E. Colwin:

   That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.