reconstruction
Pluralreconstructions (some meanings)
- 1The work of putting something back the way it was before.
Like putting a broken toy back together so it works like new.
After the fire, the reconstruction of the old church took three years.
Her shoulder needed reconstruction after the fall.
Similarrebuilding, restoration, renovation, repair
Oppositedestruction, demolition
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- 2Something that has been built again or fixed so it looks the way it did before.
The museum has a full-size reconstruction of a dinosaur skeleton.
They built a reconstruction of the castle gate for the summer fair.
Similarreplica, re-creation, model, reproduction
- 3Showing or telling again the steps that may have led to an event, like an accident.
The police asked witnesses to help with a reconstruction of the robbery.
The TV show used actors in a reconstruction of the night the ship sank.
Similarreenactment, re-creation, simulation
- 4A careful guess at a word or sound from an old language that was never written down.
Like drawing a picture of a dinosaur by looking only at its bones.
Scientists made a reconstruction of a word people spoke thousands of years ago.
The chart shows each reconstruction next to the modern words that came from it.
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Origin
Made from re- (again) plus construction.