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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A building, especially one of imposing appearance or size.
  2. n. An elaborate conceptual structure: observations that provided the foundation for the edifice of evolutionary theory.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric: applied chiefly to large or fine buildings, public or private.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially an imposing one; a large or fine building, public or private.
  2. n. An abstract structure; a school of thought.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, reborrowed from Latin aedificium ("building"), derived from aedificāre ("to build, establish") (whence also edify). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin aedificium, from aedificāre, to build : aedis, a building + -ficāre, -fy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • koldewyse I was reminded of this word through my Spanish studies: "edificio" is much more commonly used than its English counterpart, as we English-speakers are more prone to using "building." Dec 16, 2007

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