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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
building/ˈbɪldɪŋ/

▶noun

1 a structure with a roof and walls.

2 the process or trade of building houses and other structures.

'buildings' also found in these Oxford entries:

aedile - alley - ancient lights - anti-personnel - architect - architecture - azulejo - barn owl - barracks - block - brick - built-up - camp - campus - centre - chipboard - clapboard - cluster fly - colliery - complex - concrete jungle - construction - court - courtyard - develop - development - energy audit - entry - estate - estate agency - factory - fall - farm - farmstead - farmyard - feng shui - fixed assets - geomancy - ginnel - girder - grange - heritage - house - house cricket - house martin - immovable - industrial archaeology - infill - infrastructure - landscape architecture

Forum discussions with the word(s) "buildings" in the title:

...more apparent than (is it) in its government buildings
"I looked at the buildings, which were beautiful"
"the" before airports, railway stations and buildings names.
"Unused gaps between buildings can be given a structure..."
170''+'' other buildings
A number of buildings were evacuated
buildings
Buildings dating from medieval times.
cane buildings
common passageways in apartment buildings
half-used buildings
high buildings
his job was designing/ to design new buildings
iced buildings
it has/there are many old buildings
Leap tall buildings in a single bound
mostly of buildings
Of the remaining buildings
Office buildings, schools, pools, dumps: catch-all term
Portable [school buildings] - dictionary additions forum
Someday I can build buildings as beautiful as they are.
the towns with tall buildings and many people
Two buildings closely situated
What do you call the pipes which let underground buildings breath?
Where the Canon buildings were in the traditional Japanese style
Why are apartment buildings called "Arms"?
Window cleaners are pulled up and down [outside?] tall buildings ....

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