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buildingful

buildingful noun: enough to fill a building.

Noun

buildingful (plural buildingfuls or buildingsful)

  1. enough to fill a building
    • You could see a whole buildingful for one franc at the Great Exhibition in Paris that very summer; and even if the new Paris Guide had been composed by literary masters, the crowds behaved childishly, possessively, destructively.1982, Jacques Barzun, Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 401
    • When they'd arrived the night before in the pitch black after Lights Out, Gwen had taken one breath of the barracks' odor—that fluid, murky smell of a buildingful of women at close quarters—and dread had spread inside her.1999, Tom Bradley, Killing Bryce, →ISBN, page 214

Forms of buildingful

pluralbuildingfuls
pluralbuildingsful

Origin of buildingful

From building + -ful.

Questions about buildingful

What does buildingful mean?
Buildingful means enough to fill a building.
What part of speech is buildingful?
Buildingful is a noun.
What is the plural of buildingful?
The plural of buildingful is buildingfuls.

Words near buildingful in the dictionary

  1. building the plane while flying it
  2. building up
  3. building upon
  4. building worker
  5. building workers
  6. buildingful
  7. buildingfuls
  8. buildingless
  9. buildinglike
  10. buildings
  11. buildingwide

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