building, edifice

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"

• abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse — a building where animals are butchered
• apartment building, apartment house — a building that is divided into apartments
• architecture — an architectural product or work
• aviary, bird sanctuary, volary — a building where birds are kept
• bathhouse, bathing machine — a building containing dressing rooms for bathers
• bowling alley — a building that contains several alleys for bowling
• center, centre — a building dedicated to a particular activity
• chapterhouse — a building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter
• clubhouse, club — a building occupied by a club
• dormitory, dorm, residence hall, hall, student residence — a college or university building containing living quarters for students
• farm building — a building on a farm
• feedlot — a building where livestock are fattened for market
• firetrap — a building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire
• gambling house, gambling den, gambling hell, gaming house — a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)
• gazebo, summerhouse — a small roofed building affording shade and rest
• government building — a building that houses a branch of government
• greenhouse, nursery, glasshouse — a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions
• hall — a large building for meetings or entertainment
• hall — a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research
• Hall of Fame — a building containing trophies honoring famous people
• hotel — a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services
• hotel-casino, casino-hotel — a building that houses both a hotel and a casino
• house — a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
• house — a building in which something is sheltered or located
• library — a building that houses a collection of books and other materials
• medical building, health facility — building where medicine is practiced
• ministry — building where the business of a government ministry is transacted
• morgue, mortuary, dead room — a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
• observatory — a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena
• office building, office block — a building containing offices where work is done
• opium den — a building where opium is sold and used
• outbuilding — a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building
• packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed
• place of worship, house of prayer, house of God, house of worship — any building where congregations gather for prayer
• planetarium — a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling
• presbytery — building reserved for the officiating clergy
• restaurant, eating house, eating place — a building where people go to eat
• rest house — a building used for shelter by travelers (especially in areas where there are no hotels)
• rink, skating rink — building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating
• Roman building — a building constructed by the ancient Romans
• rotunda — a building having a circular plan and a dome
• ruin — a ruined building
• school, schoolhouse — a building where young people receive education
• shooting gallery — (informal) a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin
• signal box — a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains
• skyscraper — a very tall building with many storeys
• student union — a building on a college campus dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body
• tavern, tap house — a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks
• temple — an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes
• theater, theatre, house — a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
• whorehouse, brothel, bordello, bagnio, house of prostitution, house of ill repute, bawdyhouse, cathouse, sporting house — a building where prostitutes are available
• Houses of Parliament — the building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet

• structure, construction — a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity

• annex, annexe, extension, wing — an addition that extends a main building
• anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule — a large entrance or reception room or area
• corner, quoin — (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
• corner, nook — an interior angle formed be two meeting walls
• cornerstone — a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
• cornerstone — a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies
• court, courtyard — a yard wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
• cullis — a gutter in a roof
• elevator, lift — lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
• exterior door, outside door — a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building
• floor, level, storey, story — structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building
• foundation stone — a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building
• heating system, heating plant, heating, heat — utility to warm a building
• interior door — a door that closes off rooms within a building
• roof — a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
• room — an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
• scantling, stud — an upright in house framing
• shaft — a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
• skeleton, skeletal frame, frame, underframe — the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
• stairway, staircase, stairs, steps — a way of access consisting of a set of steps
• wall — an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
• window — a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
• crawlspace, crawl space — low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing