sporting house vs edifice

sporting house and edifice both are nouns.

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

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

sporting house: a building where prostitutes are available
edifice: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

Other hypernyms of sporting house include building.

sporting house (noun)	edifice (noun)
a building where prostitutes are available	a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place