substruction
substruction · substructions
Underbuilding; substructureUnderbuilding; substructure
Meaning
2 sensesUnderbuilding; substructure
(figuratively)Foundation; base
Origin
Borrowed from Latin substructio, from substruere, substructum (“to build beneath”), from sBorrowed from Latin substructio, from substruere, substructum (“to build beneath”), from sub (“under”) + struere (“to build”).
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Forms
plural: substructions| Singular | substruction |
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Word family
1 related wordsDerivedsubstructional