Other forms: constructions
Construction is the building of something new. Cranes, scaffolding, workers in hard hats, and noise from seven in the morning.
It names the industry, the process and sometimes the thing built, so a company works in construction, a bridge is under construction, and an odd shed is a strange construction. Grammar borrows the word for the way a sentence is put together, and a construction can be a phrase pattern. There is also the sense of interpretation, since putting a particular construction on somebody's words means reading them a certain way.
1nounconstructionThe process or industry of building things.
“The site has been under construction for two years.”
2nounputThe way something is put together, including a sentence.
“That is an unusual grammatical construction.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Latin
cōnstructiō
Old French
construction
Middle English
construccioun
English, today
construction
From Middle English construccioun, construction, from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruō. Morphologically construct + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA