architecture

1. (noun) the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
Related Words: profession

2. (noun) an architectural product or work
Related Words: building, edifice

3. (noun) the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"
Related Words: branch of knowledge, discipline, field, field of study, interior design, landscape architecture, study, subject, subject area, subject field, urban planning

4. (noun) the manner of construction of something and the disposition of its parts; "artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the architecture of a computer's system software"
Synonyms: structure
Related Words: composition, computer architecture, constitution, cytoarchitectonics, cytoarchitecture, fabric, framework, makeup



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