Superstructure

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  • noun. A physical or conceptual structure extended or developed from a basic form.
  • noun. The part of a building or other structure above the foundation.
  • noun. The parts of a ship's structure above the main deck.
  • noun. The rails, sleepers, and other parts of a railway.
  • noun. In Marxist theory, the ideologies or institutions of a society as distinct from the basic processes and direct social relations of material production and economics.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any structure built on something else; particularly, an edifice in relation to its foundation.
  • noun. Hence, anything erected on a foundation or basis.
  • noun. In railway engin., the sleepers, rails, and fastenings of a railway, in contradistinction to road-bed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
  • noun. The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any structure built above the top full deck. (FM 55-501).
  • noun. Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis
  • noun. all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively.
  • noun. (railroad) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck
  • Word Usage
    "The superstructure is a theoretical one that ran away with the entire so-called "field"."
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