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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Erection \E*rec"tion\, noun [L. erectio: cf. F. ['e]rection.]
1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.
Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. --Sidney
3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
4. Anything erected; a building of any kind.
5. (Physiol.) The state of a body part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue; -- used especially of the penis; as, to get or have an erection. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
erection
noun
1: an erect penis [syn: {hard-on}]
2: a structure that has been erected
3: the act of building or putting up [syn: {erecting}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "erection": Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, apotheosis, architecture, ascent, assembly, assumption, beatification, building, canonization, casa, casting, cliff dwelling, composition, construct, construction, consulate, conversion, country house, country seat, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, dacha, deanery, deification, devising, dwelling house, edifice, elaboration, elevation, embassy, enshrinement, erecting, escalation, establishment, exaltation, extraction, fabric, fabrication, farm, farmhouse, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing, hall, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, heaving up, height, house, houseboat, lake dwelling, lifting, living machine, lodge, lofting, machining, making, manor house, manse, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, packaged house, parsonage, penthouse, pile, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, preparation, presidential palace, processing, producing, pyramid, raising, ranch house, rearing, rectory, refining, roof, shaping, skyscraper, smelting, sod house, split-level, standing on end, structure, superstructure, sursum corda, tower, town house, upbuoying, upcast, upheaval, uplift, uplifting, upping, upraising, uprearing, upthrow, upthrust, vicarage, workmanship
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