Search for crossword answers and clues
A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
Answer for the clue "A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place ", 8 letters:
building
Alternative clues for the word building
Word definitions for building in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Buildings serve several needs of society – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Build \Build\ (b[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Built (b[i^]lt); p. pr. & vb. n. Building . The regular imp. & p. p. Builded is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. b[=o]l farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a structure," c.1300, verbal noun from build (v.).
Usage examples of building.
This building abuts on the water, and there, in the clear depth, they could see big, blue sharks laying for the offal that is thrown from the slaughter house.
Republican Palace and the complex of government buildings and luxury villas that abutted the Tigris River, thus seizing the administrative heart of the capital.
Paris in an infinite number of petty questions as to tenants, abutters, liabilities, taxes, repairs, sweepings, decorations for the Fete-Dieu, waste-pipes, lighting, projections over the public way, and the neighborhood of unhealthy buildings.
Even under the accelerated building schedules produced in wartime, it would have taken ages to put one of those giants together.
Hispanic field workers have gathered in front of the admin building and are yelling something about better housing and recreation facilities.
The science people had set up their computers under a tarp next to the admin building, and were examining the data crystals of shuttle activity before communications from the planet ceased.
The admin building was quite small and filled with claustrophobic offices.
Both the admin and the assembly buildings had apartments that had been used by the top people assigned to Aquarius.
Earlier, they had slithered out of the water onto the island and began crawling toward the admin building.
His hand slapped the panic button, sounding an alarm throughout the admin building.
The doors to the admin building were locked, and the ground floor windows shuttered or barricaded.
He looked at his watch and then heard someone coming down the main hallway of the admin building.
Stafford back - to the admin building, where the secretary had his temporary office ready.
He looked at his watch, realizing as he did so that there were some very bright lights on behind the admin building, in what had to be the tarmac area.
He could hear the sound of portable generators running, and there were also lights on in the admin building, across the tracks from where he was parked.