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Definition of edifice noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

edifice

property
premises
complex
structure

building a structure such as a house, school, or factory that has a roof and four walls
property a building or buildings and the surrounding land; land and buildings: We have a buyer who would like to view the property. Property values have risen enormously. This word is often used when talking about buying/selling houses or other buildings and land.
premises [pl.] ( formal ) the building or buildings and surrounding land that a business or person owns or uses: The police searched the premises.
complex a group of buildings of a similar type together in one place: an apartment complex
structure a thing that is made of several parts, especially a building: The pier is a wooden structure.

(a/an) commercial/industrial/residential building/property/premises/complex
an apartment building/complex
a/the school building/premises
to build a property/complex/structure
to put up a building/property/structure
to demolish/knock down a building/property/complex/structure

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UK: * UK and possibly other pronunciations UK and possibly other pronunciations /ˈɛdɪfɪs/ US: USA pronunciation: IPA and respelling USA pronunciation: IPA /ˈɛdəfɪs/ , USA pronunciation: respelling (ed′ə fis)

Architecture a building, esp. one of large size or imposing appearance: a 50-story edifice.

Architecture a building, esp. one of large size or imposing appearance.
any large, complex system or organization.

Latin aedificium, equivalent. to aedific(āre) to build (see edify ) + -ium – ium
Anglo-French, Middle French
1350–1400; Middle English

1. See corresponding entry in Unabridged See building.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

a building, esp a large or imposing one
a complex or elaborate institution or organization

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Examples of edifice

The magmatic activity built up one, or several, submarine edifices, > 200 m thick.
Around the edifices a layer of sand imitated syn-volcanic sediments.

The evidential bricks can be cemented together in a multitude of edifices and thus only modest, conditional and focused advice should be expected from research synthesis.

Both rural and urban committees, however, were fairly timid in making decisions, fearful of the potential for desecration of controversial edifices, and anxious to provide an appearance of working-class participation.

With their magnificent topographical edifices and the dramatic stories associated with their formation and eruptive processes they can lend themselves to well illustrated, interesting and informative texts.

The plan included the building of streets and regulating traffic, clearing the beach from existing edifices, such as the public baths, but its centrepiece was the promenade.

Does he not agree that, to put the matter very kindly indeed, these edifices are at the very least hideous, impractical and expensive?