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superstruction

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The act of superstructing, or building upon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable

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noun

Meaning 2

That which is built on some foundation; an edifice; a superstructure.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 1668, John Denham, Preface to the translation of two poems, in Poems and Translations, 6th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1719, p. 89, [...] for I love not to improve the Honour of the Living, by impairing that of the Dead; and my own Profession hath taught me, not to erect new Superstructions upon an old Ruin.

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