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aqueducts

aqueducts is the plural of aqueduct.

Meaning of aqueduct

Noun

aqueduct (plural aqueducts)

  1. An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
  2. A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially an ancient structure.
    • All the years he’d been down there in the traffic he’d taken this aqueduct for just another bridge, nothing to tell you that canal boats and waterfowl were being carried along above your head.2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 57
  3. A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.

Phrases with aqueducts

Questions about aqueducts

What is aqueducts the plural of?
Aqueducts is the plural of aqueduct.

Words near aqueducts in the dictionary

  1. aquayamycin
  2. aque-
  3. aqueduct
  4. aqueduct of Sylvius
  5. aqueductal
  6. aqueducts
  7. aqueducts of Sylvius
  8. aqueity
  9. aquent
  10. aquents
  11. aqueoglacial

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