eating house vs edifice

eating house and edifice both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of eating house include building.

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