reconstruction

Noun
US[ree-kuhn-struhk-shuhn]/ˌrikənˈstrʌkʃən/4 syllables

Open English WordNet

Noun (4)

  1. the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877Synonyms: Reconstruction EraReconstruction PeriodInstance of historic period, age
  2. the activity of constructing something againType of repair, fixKinds rebuilding, re-formation, reassembly, makeover
  3. an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidenceType of interpretation
  4. recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recallSynonyms: reconstructive memoryType of recall, recollection
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Translations

Noun act of restoring

Portuguese
reconstrução
Russian
реконстру́кция rekonstrúkcija
Japanese
再建 saiken
13 more languages
Greek
ανακατασκευή anakataskeví
Indonesian
rekonstruksi
Portuguese (PT)
reconstrução
Danish
ombygning
Esperanto
rekonstruo
Romanian
reconstruire
Serbo-Croatian
rekonstrukcija
Slovak
prestavba

The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Re′con·struc′tion (-str?k′sh?n), noun

1. The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.

2. U.S. Politics The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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