Noun
superstructure
- (nautical) Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
- Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
- (sometimes, figurative) All that part of a building above the basement.
- (British, railroad) The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
- (Marxism) The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values.
- Antonyms: infrastructure
- German: Aufbauten
- Russian: надстро́йка
- Spanish: superestructura
- Spanish: superestructura
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