reconstruction

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.

Frequency

C2
Etymology

From re- + construction.

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