building material vs timber

timber vs building material

building material and timber both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
building material	Yes	No	No	No
timber	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, timber is a hyponym of building material; that is, timber is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than building material:

building material: material used for constructing buildings
timber: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Other hyponyms of building material include brick, building block, stone, bricks and mortar, cement, concrete, covering material, fencing, fencing material, flooring, gunite, insulant, insulation, lath and plaster, lumber, mortar, roofing material, shake, shingle, siding, staff, sticks and stone, wattle and daub.

building material (noun)	timber (noun)
material used for constructing buildings	a beam made of wood
	a post made of wood
	(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
	land that is covered with trees and shrubs
	the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Difference between building material and timber

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