building
Syllables: build·ing/ˈbɪl.dɪŋ/
building noun: the act or process by which something is built; construction. Also the present participle and gerund of build.
Noun
building (countable and uncountable, plural buildings)
- The act or process by which something is built; construction.
- The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks.
- Synonyms:
- construction
- A closed structure with walls and a roof.
- My sister lives in that apartment building.
- One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks.2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1
- Synonyms:
- edifice
- Synonym of Tits building.
- Synonyms:
- Tits building
Also used as
building is also the present participle and gerund of build.
building meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
building in Hindi
- act or process of building
- निर्माण nirmāṇ
- closed structure with walls and a roof
- भवन bhavan, इमारत imārat, निर्माण nirmāṇ
building in Tamil
- closed structure with walls and a roof
- கட்டிடம் kaṭṭiṭam
building in Urdu
- act or process of building
- تَعْمِیر ta'mīr
- closed structure with walls and a roof
- عِمارَت 'imārat, بھَوَن bhavan
building in Bengali
- closed structure with walls and a roof
- ভবন bhobon, দালান dalan
More languagesFewer languages
- building in Telugu
- కట్టుబడి kaṭṭubaḍi, భవంతి bhavanti, కట్టడము kaṭṭaḍamu
- building in Kannada
- ಕಟ್ಟಡ, ಕಟ್ಟಡದ
- building in Punjabi
- ਇਮਾਰਤ imārat
- building in Gujarati
- મકાન makān
- building in Sanskrit
- भवन bhavana, निर्माण nirmāṇa
- building in Nepali
- भवन bhavan
- building in Pashto
- جوړول jorrawəl, ماڼۍ mānnəi, ودانۍ wadānǝy, بنا benā
- building in Tagalog
- pagtayo, paggawa, gusali, edipisyo
- building in Arabic
- بِنَاء bināʔ, مَبْنَى mabnā, دَار dār, بِنَايَة bināya
- building in Malay
- pembangunan, pembinaan, bangunan
- building in Indonesian
- pembangunan, konstruksi, bangunan, gedung
- building in Thai
- การสร้าง gaan-sâang, ตึก dtʉ̀k, อาคาร aa-kaan, โรง roong
- building in Vietnamese
- toà nhà
- building in Myanmar
- တိုက်အိမ် tuik-im, တိုက် tuik, ရုံ rum, အဆောက်အအုံ a.hcauk-a.um
Examples of building in a sentence
- For this building project we need to use quality materials that will last for many decades.
- There was an army of construction cranes working on building the skyscraper.
- This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
Synonyms of building
Forms of building
| plural | buildings |
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Origin of building
From Middle English byldynge, buyldyng, byldyng, buldynge, buldyng, boldyng, equivalent to build + -ing. Compare also related Middle English bold (“edifice, castle, mansion”), from Old English bold (“building, dwelling, house”).
From Middle English beeldynge, equivalent to build + -ing.
Words formed from building
- abuilding
- apartment building
- black building test
- bldg.
- boatbuilding
- bodybuilding
- break-building
- bridgebuilding
- bridge-building
- buildering
- building and pest
- building block
- building code
- building envelope
- buildingful
- buildingless
- buildinglike
- building material
- building paper
- building permit
- building site
- building society
- building trade
- buildingwide
- building worker
- burn building
- carriagebuilding
- castlebuilding
- coachbuilding
- condo building
- deckbuilding
- duck building
- Elvis has left the building
- empire-building
- forebuilding
- go jump off a building
- green building
- has left the building
- homebuilding
- housebuilding
- institution-building
- interbuilding
- intrabuilding
- jerry-building
- legislative building
- link building
- main building
- megabuilding
- modelbuilding
- model building
- modular building
- moundbuilding
- mountain building
- multibuilding
- nation-building
- nestbuilding
- newbuilding
- New Buildings
- nonbuilding
- office building
Phrases with building
- building in
- building on
- building up
- building out
- building down
- building into
- building upon
- pole building
- sick building
- team building
- Tits building
- Brill Building
24 more phrasesFewer phrases
- building codes
- building sites
- world building
- building a case
- building blocks
- building bridges
- building on sand
- building permits
- building workers
- building character
- building envelopes
- building materials
- building societies
- red building paper
- black building tests
- building air castles
- white-glove building
- Empire State Building
- sick building syndrome
- tight building syndrome
- sunken featured building
- building a better mousetrap
- building castles in the air
- building the plane while flying it
Words that rhyme with building
Questions about building
- What does building mean?
- Building means the act or process by which something is built; construction.
- What is building in Hindi?
- Building in Hindi is निर्माण (nirmāṇ), भवन (bhavan), इमारत (imārat). See Building meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is building?
- Building is a noun.
- How do you pronounce building?
- Building is pronounced /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of building?
- The plural of building is buildings.
Words near building in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: building (page history and authors); building (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-building.wav, En-uk-building.ogg.
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