edifice

Converse of object

• crumble: Unlike Labor, we don't have to shore up a crumbling edifice.
• erect: In their place is erected an edifice of the wise student, the student who knows.
• demolish: But there is no need to demolish the standing edifice of the CFP in order to make them.
• construct: They have to construct an edifice, stone by stone.
• impose: Our entry was made by the side of the " watergate " , an imposing edifice erected in the reign of Charles II.
• build: In short, the Good Hospital Guide is a statistical edifice built on sand.

Adjective modifier

• handsome: The Roman Catholic chapel is a handsome edifice of 1860.
• neat: The church was a neat edifice with rather a modern look.
• commodious: The church is a neat and commodious edifice, built in 1813, and contains 800 sittings.
• Gothic: The Congregational Chapel is a handsome Gothic edifice, in Main Street, erected in 1850, at a cost of £ 2,200.
• imposing: Without it, the ancient and imposing edifice opposes to the shock of revolution nothing but the dead weight of its loose parts.
• sacred: Entering the sacred edifice we found signs of improvement.

Modifies a noun

• complex: Perhaps someone in University house has an edifice complex.
• standing: The church is a long edifice standing on a slight elevation on the left of the road.

Noun used with modifier

• brick: The church is a brick edifice in the Doric style.
• stone: The church of West Leigh is a stone edifice of 1855.
• glass: For here, looming above a pretty lake, rises the great glass edifice of the European Parliament Building.

Preposition: in

style: The church is a brick edifice in the Doric style.

Preposition: of

• stone: The church, a neat and substantial edifice of stone, erected in 1811, is nearly in the center of the parish.
• society: The educational system is thus, in Bourdieu's opinion, the central pillar in the edifice of an unequal society.