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say it: kuhn-STRUHK-shuhn
construction is a noun meaning "the act of constructing something". It carries 7 recorded senses.
the act of constructing something
“during the construction we had to take a detour”
“his hobby was the building of boats”
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
“I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner”
the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
“the structure consisted of a series of arches”
“she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons”
drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
“the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem”
an interpretation of a text or action
“they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct”
the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
“their main business is home construction”
“workers in the building trades”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for construction come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.