- an idea or a belief that is based on various pieces of evidence that have not always been proved to be true
- a contrast between lived reality and the construct held in the mind
- (linguistics) a group of words that form a phrase
- a thing that is built or made
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin construct- ‘heaped together, built’, from the verb construere, from con- ‘together’ + struere ‘pile, build’.
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