infrastructure

1. 1.

   the basic structure or features of a system or organization

   Synonymssubstructure

   Broaderstructure

   Part ofsystem
2. 2.

   the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area

   “the industrial base of Japan”

   Synonymsbase

   Broaderstore

   Partscommunication systemfire stationgas systemmainpenal institutionpower system

Other forms of infrastructure

plural

infrastructures·

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 infrastructure

What does infrastructure mean?

infrastructure means "the basic structure or features of a system or organization". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in infrastructure?

infrastructure has 4 syllables: in-fra-struc-ture. The stress falls on "struc". In IPA it is /ˌɪnfɹəˈstɹʌktʃɚ/.

What is another word for infrastructure?

Close synonyms include substructure, base. 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 infrastructure a common word?

infrastructure 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.

What rhymes with infrastructure?

3 words rhyme with infrastructure. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.