erection
The act of building or putting up or together of something.
Other meanings
Anything erected or built.
“The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.”
Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
Synonyms
- hard-on
Related words
- erectionless
- miserection
- nonerection
- piloerection
- ptiloerection
- semierection
- re-erection
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "ērectiō" (ērectiō, ērectiōnis).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “erection” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.