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pontoon bridge

pontoon bridge noun: a temporary bridge built over floating pontoons.

Noun

pontoon bridge (plural pontoon bridges)

  1. A temporary bridge built over floating pontoons.
    • As Hiro is entering their neighborhood, he sees men running down the undulating pontoon bridge that serves as the main street, carrying guns and knives.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 385

pontoon bridge meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Persian and Vietnamese

pontoon bridge in Tamil

மிதவைப்பாலம்

pontoon bridge in Arabic

a temporary bridge built over floating pontoons
جِسْر عَائِم jisr ʕāʔim

pontoon bridge in Persian

a temporary bridge built over floating pontoons
پل شناور pol-e šenâvar, پل پانتونی pol-e pântoni

pontoon bridge in Vietnamese

a temporary bridge built over floating pontoons
cầu phao

Forms of pontoon bridge

pluralpontoon bridges

Questions about pontoon bridge

What does pontoon bridge mean?
Pontoon bridge means a temporary bridge built over floating pontoons.
What is pontoon bridge in Tamil?
Pontoon bridge in Tamil is மிதவைப்பாலம். See Pontoon bridge meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pontoon bridge?
Pontoon bridge is a noun.
What is the plural of pontoon bridge?
The plural of pontoon bridge is pontoon bridges.

Words near pontoon bridge in the dictionary

  1. pontoniines
  2. pontonnier
  3. pontonniers
  4. pontons
  5. pontoon
  6. pontoon bridge
  7. pontoon bridges
  8. pontoon parties
  9. pontoon party
  10. pontooned
  11. pontooneer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pontoon bridge (page history and authors); pontoon bridge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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