structure

/'strʌktʃə/

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Word: Structure

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Noun

1. the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
   • the social organization of England and America is very different
   • sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family
2. a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing
   • he has good bone structure
3. the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
   • his lectures have no structure
4. the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
   • artists must study the structure of the human body
   • the structure of the benzene molecule
5. a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
   • the structure consisted of a series of arches
   • she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons

Verb

1. give a structure to
   • I need to structure my days

Synonyms

• social organization
• social organisation
• social structure
• social system
• anatomical structure
• complex body part
• bodily structure
• body structure
• construction