reconstruction
Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/
The English word “reconstruction” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
- The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
- The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.
- A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
Etymology
From re- + construction.
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More English words
- reconstructed language
- reconstructibility
- reconstructible
- Reconstruction
- reconstructional
- reconstructionary
- reconstructionism
- Reconstructionist
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