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/ˈɑrkətˌɛktʃər/ Listen

noun

Architecture n.

The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; often called civil architecture. "Many other architectures besides Gothic."

Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. "The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees." "The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture."

Military architecture, the art of fortifications.

Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

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Etymology of 'Architecture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Architecture" Quotes from Famous Books

... home with as intense a feeling of relief as he had left it on the previous occasion. Between him and his father there had been growing estrangement, and the estrangement had ended in an open quarrel when he ventured to criticise the architecture of the paternal house, which had been constructed under his father's own directions. Thwarted though the father had been in his hopes of his son, however, he was not turned from his purpose of affording him every opportunity ...

— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown

... main structure, with its vestibules and porches, all of which, though on a small scale, were full of artistic and unique beauty. They were nothing like the lofty, imposing, massive and luxurious style of architecture on the other side, yet the avenues and rockeries, in the various places in the court, ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... the first family homestead ever built in those mountains entire in its simple architecture, this portico shaded the double row of windows first introduced into the dwelling; and the main building remained entire within and without, as it had been left years before by its primitive architect. But modern wings had been united to ...

— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens

... scalped any woman or child (giving the preference to children) whom they caught lingering in the outskirts after nightfall; that the white men were either hunters or schoolmasters, and that it was winter pretty much all the year round. The prevailing style of architecture I took to ...

— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... presence. The mansion, though less splendid than many that have been situated in the same region, was nevertheless of a magnificence such as is seldom witnessed by those acquainted only with terrestrial architecture. Its strong foundations and massive walls were quarried out of a ledge of heavy and sombre clouds which had hung brooding over the earth, apparently as dense and ponderous as its own granite, throughout a whole autumnal day. Perceiving that the general effect was gloomy,—so ...

— A Select Party (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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