butchery vs edifice

butchery and edifice both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
butchery	Yes	No	No	No
edifice	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, edifice is a hypernym of butchery; that is, edifice is a word with a broader meaning than butchery:

butchery: a building where animals are butchered
edifice: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

Other hypernyms of butchery include building.

butchery (noun)	edifice (noun)
the business of a butcher	a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
the savage and excessive killing of many people
a building where animals are butchered