Synonyms for infrastructure
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Noun
1. Underpinning — an underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system
underpinning, understructure rare, underframework rare, underbuilding rare
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Definitions
- n. 1
An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.
Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework
Forms
- Plural
- infrastructures → underpinnings, understructures, underbuildings, bases…
Example sentences
- amenity The health spa was the hotel’s primary amenity.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| infrastructure | rising | |
| underpinning | rising | |
| amenity | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- base1
- 7 letters
- amenity4
- 12 letters
- underpinning4, substructure
- 13 letters
- underbuilding
- 14 letters
- understructure, underframework
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (amenity4 = 4 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- infrastructure