eating house vs building

eating house and building both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
eating house	Yes	No	No	No
building	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, building is a hypernym of eating house; that is, building is a word with a broader meaning than eating house:

eating house: a building where people go to eat
building: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

Other hypernyms of eating house include edifice.

eating house (noun)	building (noun)
a building where people go to eat	the act of constructing something
	the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
	a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
	the occupants of a building