architecture Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an architectural product or work
  2. noun the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings
    • architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use
  3. noun the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
  4. noun (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
    computer architecture.
    • the architecture of a computer's system software

WordNet

Ar"chi*tec`ture noun
Etymology
L. architectura, fr. architectus: cf. F. architecture. See Architect.
Definitions
  1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
    Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.
  2. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
    The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall.
    The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet.

Webster 1913