C2nounformalurbanarts
US/ˈed.ə.fɪs/
UK/ˈed.ɪ.fɪs/
a large, impressive building; also a large and complicated system of ideas or institutions
In context
The Opera House is a grand French colonial edifice in the center of Hanoi.
A huge glass edifice now stands where the old covered market used to be.
One scandal was enough to bring down the whole edifice of his reputation.
Words that go with edifice
adjective + noun
- imposing edificeThe courthouse is an imposing edifice of gray stone.
- grand edificeThe bank occupies a grand edifice built in the 1920s.
- massive edificeThe new stadium is a massive edifice of steel and glass.
- crumbling edificeTourists photographed the crumbling edifice of the old governor's palace.
- religious edificeThe cathedral is the largest religious edifice in the province.
noun + preposition
- edifice ofCracks began to appear in the edifice of the old political system.