superstructure

IPA: sˈupɝstrʌktʃɝ

(nautical) Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
(sometimes figurative) All that part of a building above the basement.
(Britain, railroad) The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
(Marxism) The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values.

Examples of "superstructure" in Sentences

The financial trading superstructure is impossible without IT.
“Our superstructure is made entirely of a special polymer, comrade.”
The superstructure is a theoretical one that ran away with the entire so-called "field".
I believe the goldfish-bowl or greenhouse superstructure is on its way out, especially in the rear of the vehicle.
The oldest foundations are really up there; and part of the superstructure is still hidden within the modern walls.
Ban and Gastines designed the building to have a "superstructure" - a curving roof made of wooden hexagonal units supported by a central metallic spire and four conical pillars.
[Gennari] focuses on what he calls jazz's "superstructure" - its critics essentially, but also some of its businessmen-to analyze what a much related story says, or almost says, about about racial and cultural politics in the American 20th century.
What Mr. Kipling has done for us is to make us really know and feel that the larger part of our mental composition is of the same substance as that of our cousins the animals, with a certain superstructure of reasoning faculty which has enabled us to become their masters.