building
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪldɪŋ
- Hyphenation: build‧ing
Etymology 1
From Middle English byldynge, buyldyng, byldyng, buldynge, buldyng, boldyng, equivalent to build + -ing. Compare also related Middle English bold (“edifice, castle, mansion”), from Old English bold (“building, dwelling, house”).
Noun
building (countable and uncountable, plural buildings)
- (uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.
- Synonym: construction
The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks.
- (countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
- Synonyms: edifice; see also Thesaurus:building
My sister lives in that apartment building.
2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks.
- (mathematics) Synonym of Tits building.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
act or process of building
- Arabic: بِنَاء (ar) f (bināʔ)
- Armenian: շինարարություն (hy) (šinararutʻyun), կառուցում (hy) (kaṙucʻum)
- Asturian: edificación f
- Azerbaijani: inşaat (az), tikmə, tikinti (az)
- Basque: eraikina
- Belarusian: будава́нне n (budavánnje) будаўні́цтва n (budawníctva), пабудо́ва f (pabudóva)
- Bulgarian: строи́телство (bg) n (stroítelstvo), граде́ж (bg) m (gradéž), изгра́ждане (bg) n (izgráždane)
- Catalan: construcció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 建設 / 建设 (zh) (jiànshè)
- Czech: stavba (cs) f, budování n, výstavba (cs) f
- Danish: byggeri (da) n, opførelse c (af en bygning)
- Dutch: bouwen (nl) n, bouw (nl) m
- Esperanto: konstruado
- Estonian: ehitamine, ehitus
- Finnish: rakentaminen (fi), rakennus (fi), rakennustaito
- French: construction (fr) f
- Galician: construción (gl) f
- Georgian: შენება (šeneba), მშენებლობა (mšenebloba), აგება (ageba)
- German: Bau (de) m, Bauen (de) n
- Greek: δόμηση (el) f (dómisi)
- Ancient Greek: οἰκοδόμησις f (oikodómēsis)
- Hebrew: בנייה / בְּנִיָּה (he) f (b'niyá)
- Hindi: निर्माण (hi) m (nirmāṇ)
- Hungarian: építés (hu), építkezés (hu), felépítés (hu)
- Icelandic: bygging (is) f
- Indonesian: pembangunan (id), konstruksi (id)
- Italian: costruzione (it) f, edificazione (it) f, formazione (it) f
- Japanese: 建築 (ja) (けんちく, kenchiku), 建造 (ja) (けんぞう, kenzō), 建設 (ja) (けんせつ, kensetsu)
- Kazakh: құрылыс (qūrylys)
- Korean: 건설(建設) (ko) (geonseol)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بیناکردن (bînakirdin)
- Northern Kurdish: avakirin (ku) f, bînasazî (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: имарат (ky) (imarat), үй (ky) (üy), курулуш (ky) (kuruluş), салуу (ky) (saluu), куруу (ky) (kuruu), жасоо (ky) (jasoo), тургузуу (ky) (turguzuu), көтөрүү (ky) (kötörüü), чогултуу (ky) (cogultuu), кураштыруу (ky) (kuraştıruu), конструкция (ky) (konstruktsiya), конструкциялоо (ky) (konstruktsiyaloo)
- Latgalian: stateit, budavuot
- Latin: cōnstrūctiō (la) f
- Latvian: celšana, būvēšana
- Lithuanian: statyba (lt) f
- Macedonian: изградба f (izgradba), градење n (gradenje)
- Malay: pembangunan, pembinaan
- Middle English: byldynge
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konstruksjon (no) m
- Old English: timbring f, bytling f
- Pannonian Rusyn: будованє n (budovanje), вибудов f (vibudov), будова f (budova)
- Pashto: جوړول (ps) m pl (jorrawəl)
- Phoenician: 𐤌𐤁𐤍𐤕 f (mbnt)
- Polish: budowanie (pl) n, budowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: construção (pt) f, edificação (pt) f
- Punic: 𐤁𐤍 m (bn)
- Romanian: construcție (ro) f, construire (ro) f, edificare (ro) f
- Russian: строи́тельство (ru) n (stroítelʹstvo), стро́йка (ru) f (strójka)
- Scots: biggin
- Scottish Gaelic: togail f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гра́дња f, изгра́дња f
- Latin: grádnja (sh) f, izgrádnja f
- Slovene: gradnja f
- Spanish: edificación (es) f, construcción (es) f, cimentación (es) f
- Swahili: jenga (sw)
- Swedish: byggande (sv) n, bygge (sv) n, byggnation (sv) c, byggnadsverksamhet c
- Tagalog: pagtayo, paggawa
- Telugu: కట్టుబడి (te) (kaṭṭubaḍi)
- Thai: การสร้าง (th) (gaan-sâang)
- Turkish: inşa (tr), inşaat (tr)
- Ukrainian: будівни́цтво (uk) n (budivnýctvo)
- Urdu: تَعْمِیر f (ta'mīr)
- Volapük: bum (vo), bumam
- Welsh: adeiladu (cy)
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closed structure with walls and a roof
- Afrikaans: gebou (af)
- Albanian: ndërtesë (sq) f
- Amharic: ሕንጻ (ḥənṣa)
- Apache:
- Western Apache: kįh
- Arabic: مَبْنَى (ar) m (mabnā), بِنَاء (ar) f (bināʔ), دَار (ar) f (dār), بِنَايَة (ar) f (bināya), عِمَارَة (ar) f (ʕimāra)
- Egyptian Arabic: عمارة f (ʕimāra), مبنى m (mabna)
- Armenian: շենք (hy) (šenkʻ)
- Asturian: edificiu (ast) m, edificación f
- Azerbaijani: yapı, bina (az), tikinti (az)
- Baluchi: ماڑی (máří)
- Basque: eraikin
- Belarusian: буды́нак m (budýnak), дом (be) m (dom), будо́ва f (budóva), пабудо́ва f (pabudóva)
- Bengali: ভবন (bn) (bhobon), দালান (bn) (dalan)
- Breton: savadur (br) m
- Bulgarian: зда́ние (bg) n (zdánie), постро́йка (bg) f (postrójka), сгра́да (bg) f (sgráda), къ́ща (bg) f (kǎ́šta), дом (bg) m (dom)
- Burmese: တိုက်အိမ် (my) (tuik-im), တိုက် (my) (tuik), ရုံ (my) (rum), အဆောက်အအုံ (my) (a.hcauk-a.um)
- Carpathian Rusyn: будо́ва f (budóva)
- Catalan: edifici (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏁᎸᎢ (adanelvi)
- Chickasaw: abooha, aboowa
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 建築物 / 建筑物 (gin3 zuk1 mat6)
- Hokkien: 大廈 / 大厦 (tāi-hā / tāi-hēe / tōa-hēe)
- Mandarin: 建築 / 建筑 (zh) (jiànzhù), 建築物 / 建筑物 (zh) (jiànzhùwù)
- Choctaw: chuka
- Crimean Tatar: bina
- Czech: budova (cs) f, stavba (cs) f, dům (cs) m
- Danish: bygning (da) c
- Dutch: gebouw (nl) n
- Esperanto: konstruaĵo
- Estonian: hoone
- Faroese: bygningur m
- Finnish: rakennus (fi)
- French: immeuble (fr) m, édifice (fr) m, bâtiment (fr) m
- Galician: edificio (gl) m, construción (gl) m
- Georgian: შენობა (šenoba), ნაგებობა (nageboba)
- German: Gebäude (de) n, Bau (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐍉 f (gatimrjō)
- Greek: κτίριο (el) n (ktírio), κτίσμα (el) n (ktísma), οικοδομή (el) f (oikodomí), κτήριο (el) n (ktírio)
- Ancient Greek: οἴκημα n (oíkēma), οἰκοδομία f (oikodomía), οἰκοδόμημα n (oikodómēma)
- Greenlandic: illuliaq, illu
- Gujarati: મકાન (gu) m (makān)
- Haitian Creole: bilding, batiman
- Hawaiian: hale
- Hebrew: בניין \ בִּנְיָן (he) m (binyan)
- Hindi: भवन (hi) m (bhavan), इमारत (hi) f (imārat), निर्माण (hi) m (nirmāṇ)
- Hungarian: épület (hu)
- Icelandic: bygging (is) f, hús (is) n
- Ido: edifico (io)
- Indonesian: bangunan (id), gedung (id)
- Ingrian: hoone
- Irish: foirgneamh (ga) m
- Italian: edificio (it) m, palazzo (it) m
- Japanese: 建物 (ja) (たてもの, tatemono), 建築物 (ja) (けんちくぶつ, kenchiku butsu), 建屋 (ja) (たてや, tateya), ビル (ja) (biru) (high‐rise)
- Kazakh: ғимарат (kk) (ğimarat), үй (kk) (üi)
- Khmer: អាគារ (km) (ʼaakiə)
- Korean: 건물(建物) (ko) (geonmul), 빌딩 (ko) (bilding)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بینا (bîna)
- Northern Kurdish: avahî (ku) f, bîna (ku)
- Kyrgyz: имарат (ky) (imarat), үй (ky) (üy)
- Lao: ການກໍ່ສ້າງ (kān kǭ sāng), ຕຶກ (tưk)
- Latgalian: kuorms, statne, budaveiba
- Latin: aedificium (la) n
- Latvian: celtne, ēka (lv), būve
- Lithuanian: pastatas (lt) m, statinys m
- Luxembourgish: Gebai (lb) n
- Macedonian: зграда f (zgrada), здание n (zdanie), куќа f (kuḱa), дом (mk) m (dom)
- Malay: bangunan (ms)
- Maltese: binja f
- Māori: whare (mi)
- Middle English: byldynge
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: барьсан зүйл (barʹsan züjl), барилга (mn) (barilga)
- Nepali: भवन (bhavan)
- Norman: înmeubl'ye m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bygning (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: bygning m or f
- Occitan: edifici (oc) m
- Old English: timbring f, botl n
- Oromo: gamoo
- Ossetian: кӕнд (kænd)
- Pannonian Rusyn: будинок m inan (budinok), будовня f (budovnja), будова f (budova), зданиє n (zdanije)
- Pashto: ماڼۍ (ps) f (mānnəi), ودانۍ (ps) f (wadānǝy), بنا (ps) f (benā), عمارت (ps) m ('emārat)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: ساخْتِمان (sâxtemân), ساخْتِمون (sâxtemun) (colloquial, Tehrani), بَنا (banâ), عِمارَت (emârat)
- Phoenician: 𐤌𐤒𐤌 (mqm)
- Plautdietsch: Bu m
- Polish: budynek (pl) m, budowla (pl) f, dom (pl) m, gmach (pl) m
- Portuguese: edifício (pt) m, prédio (pt) m
- Punic: 𐤌𐤒𐤌 m (mqm)
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਇਮਾਰਤ (pa) f (imārat)
- Romanian: edificiu (ro) n, clădire (ro) f, construcție (ro) f
- Romansh: edifizi m, stabiliment m
- Russian: зда́ние (ru) n (zdánije), строе́ние (ru) n (strojénije), постро́йка (ru) f (postrójka), дом (ru) m (dom)
- Sanskrit: भवन (sa) (bhavana), निर्माण (sa) (nirmāṇa)
- Scots: biggin
- Scottish Gaelic: togalach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: згра̏да f, зда́ње n, ку̏ћа f, до̏м (sh) m
- Latin: zgrȁda (sh) f, zdánje (sh) n, kȕća (sh) f, dȍm (sh) m
- Slovak: budova (sk) f, stavba f, dom (sk) m
- Slovene: zgradba (sl) f, stavba (sl) f, hiša (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: twarjenje n
- Spanish: edificio (es) m, inmueble (es) m, edificación (es) f, construcción (es) f
- Swahili: jengo (sw)
- Swedish: byggnad (sv) c, bygge (sv) n, hus (sv) n
- Tagalog: gusali (tl), edipisyo
- Tajik: бино (tg) (bino), иморат (imorat), сохтмон (soxtmon)
- Tamil: கட்டிடம் (ta) (kaṭṭiṭam)
- Telugu: భవంతి (te) (bhavanti), కట్టడము (te) (kaṭṭaḍamu)
- Thai: ตึก (th) (dtʉ̀k), อาคาร (th) (aa-kaan), โรง (th) (roong), หอ (th) (hɔ̌ɔ)
- Tibetan: ཁང་པ (khang pa)
- Tok Pisin: haus
- Turkish: bina (tr), yapı (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: یاپی (yapı), عمارت (ʼimaret)
- Turkmen: bina (tk), ymarat
- Ukrainian: буди́нок (uk) m (budýnok), спору́да (uk) f (sporúda), дім m (dim), будівля (uk) f (budivlja), будо́ва (uk) f (budóva)
- Urdu: عِمارَت f ('imārat), بھَوَن m (bhavan)
- Uyghur: بىنا (bina)
- Uzbek: bino (uz), qirilish, imorat (uz)
- Vietnamese: toà nhà (vi)
- Volapük: bumot (vo), (diminutive) bumotil, (collective) bumotem, (diminutive, collective) bumotilem
- Welsh: adeilad (cy) f, adail m
- Yiddish: בנין m (binyen), געבײַדע f (gebayde)
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- Breton: (1, 3) (please verify) savadur (br) m
- Ido: (please verify) konstrukturo (io)
- Indonesian: (please verify) bangunan (id) , (please verify) gedung (id)
- Interlingua: (1, 2, 3) (please verify) edification, (1, 2, 3) (please verify) construction, (3) (please verify) edificio
- Lithuanian: (1) (please verify) statymas m, (1, 2, field of business) (please verify) statyba (lt) f, (3) (please verify) statinys m, (3) (please verify) pastatas (lt) m
- Persian: (please verify) ساختن (fa) (sâxtan) (1), (please verify) ساختمان (fa) (sâxtemân) (2)
- Tibetan: (please verify) ཁང (khang)
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Further reading
Etymology 2
From Middle English beeldynge, equivalent to build + -ing.
Verb
building
- present participle and gerund of build
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English building.
Pronunciation
Noun
building m (plural buildings)
- tower, skyscraper (tall building)
- Synonyms: gratte-ciel, tour
1968, Gérard Bourgeois, Jean-Max Rivière, “Le diable est anglais”, performed by Brigitte Bardot:Moi je l'ai vu remonter Carnaby Street / Je l'ai suivi et je sais où il habite / Dans un building de cent mètres de haut / Où sur chaque porte est inscrit "Satan and Co"- I saw him go up Carnaby Street / I followed him and know where he lives / In a tower one hundred meters tall / With "Satan and Co" written on every door
1990, Antoine de Caunes, C'est bon mais c'est chaud, Paris: Pocket, →ISBN, page 71:Je contemplai évasivement l'alignement des buildings, tandis que nous redescendions vers Times Square, par Broadway, un peu plus secoués qu'un canoë s'approchant des Niagara.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1994, Serge Brussolo, Le Chien de minuit, Paris: Librairie des Champs-Élysées, published 1997, →ISBN, page 44:D'en bas, des trottoirs, on n'avait pas conscience de l'importance de l'azur, les buildings le cachaient, on n'en apercevait que des portions congrues.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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