Crossword-Solution: SUPERSTRUCTURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Superstructure | n. | Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis |
| Superstructure | n. | all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively. |
| Superstructure | n. | The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SUPERSTRUCTURE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| all of a building above the basement | 1 answer |
| structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck | 1 answer |
| GROUND (ant.) | 4 answers |
| Ship part | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SUPERSTRUCTURE (5)
Westgate continued, “that the most charming girl in the world is a Boston superstructure upon a New York fonds; or perhaps a New York superstructure upon a Boston fonds.
The shirt, for instance, which was formerly such a simple-minded and straightforward garment, knowing no guile, has become, in the hands of the inventors, a mere pretence, a frail scaffold, on which an elaborate superstructure of shams is erected.
When a native habitation is deserted, the superstructure—pandanus thatch, wattle, unstable tropical timber—speedily rots, and is speedily scattered by the wind.
What a future he had before him!—to consolidate the Empire! to perfect the great achievement of his father, and render permanent the foundation of the Napoleonic dynasty! to build a superstructure as transcendent for the glories of Peace, as those of his immortal ancestor had been for War! It was not difficult to play the game with such court cards in one’s hand.
The foundations of the structure were laid with old thoughts thrown often into new and striking forms; but, as the superstructure arose more and more into view, while genius marked every part of it, features appeared which gave the rigidly orthodox serious misgivings.
Quotes with SUPERSTRUCTURE (3)
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which l…
The spiritual world of a Volk is not its cultural superstructure, just as little as it is its arsenal of useful knowledge [Kenntnisse] and values; rather, it is the power that comes from preserving at the most profound level the forces that are rooted in the soil and blood of a Volk, the power to arouse most inwardly and to shake most extensively the Volk's existence.
You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).