150 Weird Words Defined: Your Guide to the Language of Architecture

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Back in September, we asked our readers to help us make the definitive list of weird words used by architects, and we got an astonishing response. The resulting article, 150 Weird Words that Only Architects Use was one of our most popular of the year, ranking highly in our most read articles of 2015 and our editors' picks of the best articles of the year. But while it was well received, a number of people commented that something was missing in our list: definitions of all the words, to both aid readers' comprehension of the list and to debate over how different people had interpreted the same word. With that in mind - and considering that it is the time of year for generosity - we've revisited our list to bring you fun definitions for all 150.

If you're looking for an architectural reference dictionary, we assure you that this isn't it. But we hope you'll have fun all the same.

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Cite: Rory Stott. "150 Weird Words Defined: Your Guide to the Language of Architecture" 26 Dec 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/779463/150-weird-words-defined-your-guide-to-the-language-of-architecture> ISSN 0719-8884

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