framework

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 34.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
2. noun The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
3. noun The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
4. noun A basic conceptual structure.

   These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.

5. noun A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
6. noun An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.

Similar words

fabric framing frame model theoretical account architecture landmark doorframe jamb box

Often followed by

of for and is that to in within which

Word family

frameworks