addition
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5.3
- noun
- /əˈdɪʃən/
- Archaic
:
subdivisión
- We get a lot of questions from people who want to save their moldings or replicate them because they're doing an addition or they've got a repair to make.
Examples
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And my dad and I built the upstairs addition on the house.
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So you want to build an addition and not pay a carpenter.
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The addition that had been built to accommodate my room stuck off the house to the side.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's been painted tan instead of brown, and there is a new addition going up on the north.
Fiction book (1994) -
Attendees got to go on a tour of the addition's first floor.
Blog text (1) -
So here are the specs for the new addition.
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The west wing addition alone cost approximately $8,000.
Academic text (2010) -
In 1994, the court moved into a new $54 million addition to the Cook County Juvenile Center on Chicago's West Side.
Academic text (1997) -
About seven years ago, I drove back and saw a palatial two-story addition added to the little Cape Cod.
Blog text (24) -
We recently completed the new addition to our house, which includes a spacious living room.
Synonyms
218
3.4
An area with new buildings for homes or shops
38
4.1
An area of land made into many house lots that form a planned neighborhood
5
2.7
A residential area near a city with family homes and quieter streets
4
4.2
An area planned and built with homes, shops, and parks for people to live in
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
Add the numbers in the same places of two matrices to make another matrix
How Developed
218
3.4
- US
∞
1.8
- US
38
4.1
- Archaic
9
5.3
- US
19
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Addition comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and dare 'to give', and is related to the verb add. A town or city 'addition' is land 'given to' the place — a new part added for houses and streets, which is why we call it an 'addition'.