viaduct

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English[edit]

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A train going over a viaduct in France

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvaɪəˌdʌkt/
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Noun[edit]

viaduct (plural viaducts)

  1. (transport) A bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      [] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
    • 1944 January and February, C. F. Cobon, “The County of London Plan”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:
      The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]

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Dutch[edit]

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Noun[edit]

viaduct m (plural viaducten, diminutive viaductje n)

  1. viaduct.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French viaduc or German Viadukt.

Noun[edit]

viaduct n (plural viaducte)

  1. viaduct

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