'Erection' definitions:
Definition of 'erection'
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Definition of 'Erection'
From: GCIDE
- Erection \E*rec"tion\, n. [L. erectio: cf. F. ['e]rection.]
- 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes. [1913 Webster]
- Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. --Sidney [1913 Webster]
- 3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Anything erected; a building of any kind. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Physiol.) The state of a body part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue; -- used especially of the penis; as, to get or have an erection. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Synonyms of 'erection'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adobe house,
- apotheosis,
- architecture,
- ascent,
- assembly,
- assumption,
- beatification,
- building,
- canonization,
- casa,
- casting,
- cliff dwelling,
- composition,
- construct,
- construction,
- consulate,
- conversion,
- country house,
- country seat,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cultivation,
- dacha,
- deanery,
- deification,
- devising,
- dwelling house,
- Dymaxion house,
- edifice,
- elaboration,
- elevation,
- embassy,
- enshrinement,
- erecting,
- escalation,
- establishment,
- exaltation,
- extraction,
- fabric,
- fabrication,
- farm,
- farmhouse,
- fashioning,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- framing,
- growing,
- hall,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- heaving up,
- height,
- house,
- houseboat,
- lake dwelling,
- lifting,
- living machine,
- lodge,
- lofting,
- machining,
- making,
- manor house,
- manse,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- mining,
- molding,
- packaged house,
- parsonage,
- penthouse,
- pile,
- prefab,
- prefabricated house,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- presidential palace,
- processing,
- producing,
- pyramid,
- raising,
- ranch house,
- rearing,
- rectory,
- refining,
- roof,
- shaping,
- skyscraper,
- smelting,
- sod house,
- split-level,
- standing on end,
- structure,
- superstructure,
- sursum corda,
- tower,
- town house,
- upbuoying,
- upcast,
- upheaval,
- uplift,
- uplifting,
- upping,
- upraising,
- uprearing,
- upthrow,
- upthrust,
- vicarage,
- White House,
- workmanship