建造物|けんぞうぶつkenzoubutsu

1. nounstructure; building
   これは私が見みた中なかで一番いちばんどっしりとした建造けんぞう物ものです。↗

   This is the most massive structure I have ever seen.

• Synonym建築けんちくWrittenWritten/formal prose. The act of building and architecture as a field, and can also mean finished buildings; 「建造物」 is only the finished structures.
• Synonym建物たてものNeutralNeutral and the most common word for houses and buildings; 「建造物」 also covers bridges, towers and other structures that are not buildings.
• Synonym建築物けんちくぶつWrittenWritten/formal prose. Buildings for living, working or storing things in; 「建造物」 is broader and also takes in bridges and towers.
• Synonym構造物こうぞうぶつWrittenWritten/formal prose. Civil-engineering structures such as bridges and tunnels; 「建造物」 also covers houses and other buildings.
• Related営造物えいぞうぶつFormalFormal. In legal usage mostly public facilities, as in 「公の営造物」; 「建造物」 is the broader term.
• Related構造体こうぞうたいWrittenWritten/formal prose. An assembled structure or framework of parts; 「建造物」 leans toward concrete buildings.
• Related普請ふしんWrittenWritten/formal prose. Building or repairing a house, as in 「安普請」; 「建造物」 is the finished product, not the work.
• Related堂宇どううFormalFormal. Halls, temples and similar religious buildings; 「建造物」 is far broader.
• Related構築物こうちくぶつWrittenWritten/formal prose. Built structures, close in range to 「建造物」; of the two, 「建造物」 is the more common choice.
• Related屋舎おくしゃWrittenWritten/formal prose. Houses and buildings, but very rarely used; 「建造物」 is broader and more usual.
• Related堂舎どうしゃFormalFormal. The halls and other buildings of shrines and temples; 「建造物」 is broader.
• Related建ち家たちいえCasualColloquial. A house as it currently stands; rare in use, and 「建造物」 sounds more formal.
• Antonym天然物てんねんものNeutralNeutral. Things produced by nature rather than made by people — the counterpart of man-made 「建造物」.
• Antonym自然物しぜんぶつNeutralNeutral. Natural objects that exist without human involvement, set against the man-made 「建造物」.

For man-made structures in general — buildings, bridges, towers — use 「建造物」, as in 「歴史的建造物」. For houses use 「建物」; in formal prose 「建築物」 covers buildings and 「構造物」 civil-engineering works. The opposite is 「自然物」.

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1. 建物たてもの・橋はし・塔とうなど建造けんぞうした物もの。