BRICKS AND MORTAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bricks and mortar mean? 

• BRICKS AND MORTAR (noun)
  The noun BRICKS AND MORTAR has 1 sense:

1. building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between them

  Familiarity information: BRICKS AND MORTAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRICKS AND MORTAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("bricks and mortar" is a kind of...):

building material (material used for constructing buildings)

 Context examples 

Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)