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architextures

architextures is the plural of architexture.

Meaning of architexture

Noun (1)

architexture (countable and uncountable, plural architextures)

  1. (film studies, literary criticism) A metatextual entity created through multiple texts or works; a category or semantic construct embodied by a class of artistic works.
    • Dickens's architextures do not present us with a form – of a building, of the city – as a meaning, system or structure. Rather, we are presented with the textual event, the architextural event, as a means of exposing the limits of fixed meaning, and, by this, the limits of the utterable.1995, Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys, Victorian Identities, page 210

Noun (2)

architexture (countable and uncountable, plural architextures)

  1. Eggcorn of architecture.

Questions about architextures

What is architextures the plural of?
Architextures is the plural of architexture.

Words near architextures in the dictionary

  1. architextualities
  2. architextuality
  3. architextually
  4. architextural
  5. architexture
  6. architextures
  7. architomy
  8. architourism
  9. architourist
  10. architourists
  11. architranseme

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Adapted from Wiktionary: architextures (page history and authors); architexture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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