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    [Noun]  | "ed*i*fice" | \ ˈe-də-fəs \


    1: building; especially : a large or massive structure

    2: a large abstract structure


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin aedificium, from aedificare;

    [Noun]  | "edifices" 


    1: a large, magnificent, or massive building;


      * e.g., " ... the U.S. Capitol is one of our nation's most impressive edifices "



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    2: something built as a dwelling, shelter, or place for human activity;


      * e.g., " ... the first edifices built by the colonists were primitive huts with walls of dried mud and roofs covered with thatch "



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    3: the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form;


      * e.g., " ... the edifice of the argument is quite simple, once you get past the fancy language "



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    [Noun]  | "edifice" 


    1: a large, magnificent, or massive building;


      * e.g., " ... the U.S. Capitol is one of our nation's most impressive edifices "



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    2: something built as a dwelling, shelter, or place for human activity;


      * e.g., " ... the first edifices built by the colonists were primitive huts with walls of dried mud and roofs covered with thatch "



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    3: the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form;


      * e.g., " ... the edifice of the argument is quite simple, once you get past the fancy language "



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     [ "edifice" ]

    1: 1) a large building

      * e.g.,  ... The Empire State building is quite and edifice. 


     [ "edifice" ]

    2: 2) a very large person who could lose a bit of weight

      * e.g.,  ... When you see a large person: lift your hands into the air and yell "EDIFICE!!!!" 

     [ "edifice complex" ]

    1: a keen desire of a public or educational administrator to construct a building or buildings(a pun on Oedipus complex)

      * e.g.,  ... The principal seems to have an edifice complex. 

     [ "Edifice Complex" ]

    1: (n.)An Edifice Complex is a serious budget-busting illness that typically manifests itself on modern college and university campuses. Soon after their inauguration, an incoming university president will frantically and feverishly fall all over themselves to relentlessly badger wealthy donors and students for the purposes of leaving a mark with their name on it on the campus by constructing a new, over-priced, prime parking lot removing, ten-story structure post-modern eyesore whose purpose is solely to house administration, their support staff, and grace the cover of university brochures and websites. Faculty and students then are given the vacated, broken down, second and third string buildings for use as classes and offices.

      * e.g.,  ... Friend 1) Dude, I barely made it to class on time, even though I got on campus forty minutes ago! WTF?! 

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