architecture
noun /ˈɑːkɪtektʃə(r)/
  /ˈɑːrkɪtektʃər/
- [uncountable] the art and study of designing buildings- to study architecture
- She's a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon.
- an architecture student/critic
 
 enlarge image[uncountable] the design or style of a building or buildings enlarge image[uncountable] the design or style of a building or buildings- the architecture of the eighteenth century
- modern architecture
- There are examples of most styles of architecture in the town.
 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- classical
- contemporary
- medieval
- …
 - a school of architecture
- a style of architecture
 
- [countable, uncountable] (computing) the design and structure of a computer systemTopics Computersc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- client-server
- hardware
- information
- …
 
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin architectura, from architectus from Greek arkhitektōn, from arkhi- ‘chief’ + tektōn ‘builder’.
