BUILDING SITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does building site mean? 

• BUILDING SITE (noun)
  The noun BUILDING SITE has 1 sense:

1. a lot on which there are no permanent buildings

  Familiarity information: BUILDING SITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUILDING SITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lot on which there are no permanent buildings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

building site; vacant lot

Hypernyms ("building site" is a kind of...):

lot (a parcel of land having fixed boundaries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "building site"):

sandlot (a vacant lot used by city boys to play games)

 Context examples 

The building site, dubbed "Sparky," is a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)