What is the meaning of 'construct' in programming languages

Question

I see the term 'construct' come up very often in programming readings. The current book I am reading, "Programming in C" by Stephen Koching has used it a few times throughout the book. One example is in the chapter on looping, which says:

"When developing programs, it sometimes becomes desirable to have the test made at the end of the loop rather than at the beginning. Naturally, the C language provides a special language construct to handle such a situation. This looping statement is known as the do statement."

In this case what does the term 'construct' mean, and does the word 'construct' have any relation to an object 'constructor' in other languages?

Answer 1

In this case you can replace the word construct with syntax.

does the word 'construct' have an relation to an object 'constructor' in other languages?

No. These two terms are different. There is nothing like constructor in C

Answer 2

It's a generic term that normally refers to some particular syntax included in the language to perform some task (like a loop with the condition at the end). It has no relation at all with constructors.¹

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1. Well, besides the fact that constructors are a particular language construct in many OO languages.