architecture

1. 1.

   an architectural product or work

   Broaderbuilding

   architecture

2. 2.

   the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings

   “architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use”

   Broaderdisciplinefine arts

   Narrowerurban planning

   Partsarchitectonics
3. 3.

   the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect

   Broaderprofession
4. 4.

   (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software

   “the architecture of a computer's system software”

   Synonymscomputer architecture

   Broaderstructure

   Narrowercomplex instruction set computingreduced instruction set computing

   computer science

Other forms of architecture

plural

architectures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about architecture

What does architecture mean?

architecture means "an architectural product or work". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in architecture?

architecture has 4 syllables: ar-chi-tec-ture. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /ˈɑɹkəˌtɛktʃɚ/.

What is another word for architecture?

Close synonyms include computer architecture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is architecture a common word?

architecture is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.