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Lighthouse

A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.

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Tower 76% connected

A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Beacon 92% connected

A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pharos 92% connected

A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Altar noun · 86% connection

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

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Arcade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Arch noun · 86% connection

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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Area noun · 86% connection

a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

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Arena noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Balance noun · 86% connection

equality of distribution

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Balcony noun · 86% connection

a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Bascule noun · 86% connection

a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)

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Boarding noun · 86% connection

a structure of boards

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Body noun · 86% connection

the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

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Bowl noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Bridge noun · 86% connection

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

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Building noun · 86% connection

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corne…

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Catchment noun · 86% connection

a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)

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Coil noun · 86% connection

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

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Colonnade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Column noun · 86% connection

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

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Complex noun · 86% connection

a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

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Admittance noun · 78% connection

Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.

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Barbacan noun · 78% connection

A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a d…

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Belfry noun · 78% connection

A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

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Brucine noun · 78% connection

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nu…

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Campanile noun · 78% connection

a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building

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Coast noun · 78% connection

To sail from port to port in the same country.

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Coasting noun · 78% connection

A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.

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Critical noun · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of d…

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Donjon noun · 78% connection

The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illus…

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Entrance noun · 78% connection

The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking posses…

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Erectile adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

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Erection noun · 78% connection

Anything erected; a building of any kind.

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Fluorescence noun · 78% connection

That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…

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Friesic noun · 78% connection

The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The…

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