Edifice Meaning In English. Forget your monuments buildings and other such edifices this city has trees. 1 A building especially a large imposing one.
A large or massive structure. Late 14c from Old French edifice building. From aedificare to erect a building.
EDIFICE used as a noun is very rare.
Countable noun usually adjective NOUN An edifice is a large and impressive building. Figurative The whole edifice of our civilization is. Residential buildings and public edifices were built on a far larger scale than in previous years. It is an imposing edifice a mock temple based on the classical Greek model with a fine pediment and no fewer than six columns.
