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say it: STRUHK-chur
structure is a noun and verb meaning "a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts". It carries 6 recorded senses.
the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
“artists must study the structure of the human body”
“the structure of the benzene molecule”
the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
“his lectures have no structure”
a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
“he has good bone structure”
the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
“the social organization of England and America is very different”
“sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family”
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 structure 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.