superstructure
About 1.45 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
- noun Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
- noun All that part of a building above the basement.
- noun The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
- noun The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values.
Similar words
pier bodywork deck roof decking shelter cover apron coverage edifice
Often followed by
of is and was in which to that on
Word family
superstructural superstructures
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