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Definition of edifice : A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; - chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

Synonyms:

make

composition, architecture, framework, frame, arrangement, architectural monument, pile, fabric, shape, skeleton, structure, study at building, building, construction, constitution, anatomy, makeup

Usage examples:

• This however is, or rather was, an edifice of some beauty. - "The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815", G. R. Gleig.
• He saw the edifice which he had been constructing his whole life, sink into the ground before him. - "A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)", Felix Dahn.
• When he said he was in rooms in London, and had his only sister with him, she signified with a kind and graceful bend of the lace- enfolded shoulders and the bewigged head within the wonderful edifice of a cap, that she meant to have the pleasure of calling on Miss Ironside. - "A Houseful of Girls", Sarah Tytler.