con·struct
kən-ˈstrəkt 
constructed; constructing; constructs
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2
: to draw (a geometrical figure) with suitable instruments and under specified conditions
Construct a regular hexagon with sides 3 inches long.
3
: to set in logical order
con·struct
ˈkän-ˌstrəkt
1
: something constructed by the mind: such as
a
: a theoretical entity
… the deductive study of abstract constructs …—
Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel J. Boorstin
b
: a working hypothesis or concept
The unconscious was a construct that came from the daily effort to understand patients.
2
: a product of ideology, history, or social circumstances
Privacy is more than a social construct or an idea; it is a condition of the body.—Sallie Tisdale
Sallie TisdaleExamples of construct in a Sentence
Verb
They plan to construct a barn behind the house.
The author constructs all the stories around one theme.
Construct a triangle that has sides of equal length.
Noun
He argues that time is a subjective construct with no objective existence.
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The structure sits above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, a Cold War-era bunker constructed in 1942.
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The construct for this particular Cubs team is that every day should feel the same.
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Verb
Friday night’s 2-1 loss against Leeds was the day the first shovels went into the ground as West Ham’s relegation resting place is constructed.
—Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
The structure sits above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, a Cold War-era bunker constructed in 1942.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
He actually got started in Argentina by helping establish a variation on a currency board in 1991, helped design and impose that construct in Estonia (1992), Lithuania (1994), Bulgaria (1997), and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1997), and later advanced dollarization in Montenegro (1999) and Ecuador (2000).
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
The construct for this particular Cubs team is that every day should feel the same.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Construct.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/construct. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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construct
noun
con·struct
ˈkän-ˌstrəkt
: something constructed especially by mental synthesis
form a construct of a physical object by mentally assembling and integrating sense-data
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