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edifices

edifices is the plural of edifice.

Meaning of edifice

Noun

edifice (plural edifices)

  1. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one.
  2. An abstract structure, such as a school of thought, an argument, a theoretical position, etc.
    • The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed?1904, Edward S. Holden, “Copernicus”, in Popular science monthly, volume 65, page 117

Questions about edifices

What is edifices the plural of?
Edifices is the plural of edifice.

Words near edifices in the dictionary

  1. edificators
  2. edificatory
  3. edifice
  4. edifice complex
  5. edifice complexes
  6. edifices
  7. edificial
  8. edified
  9. edifier
  10. edifiers
  11. edifies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: edifices (page history and authors); edifice (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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