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viaduct

Syllables: via·duct/ˈvaɪədʌkt//ˈvaɪəˌdʌk(t)/

viaduct noun: a bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley or other obstacles.

viaduct: a bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley or other obstacles
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Noun

viaduct (plural viaducts)

  1. A bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
    • […] 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...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    • 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.]1944 January and February, C. F. Cobon, “The County of London Plan”, in Railway Magazine, page 24

viaduct meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

viaduct in Tamil

ஏதண்டம், கடவை, பாதைப்பலம், பாதைப் பாலம்

viaduct in Urdu

پل

viaduct in Malayalam

വലിയ പാലം, ആർച്ചുകൾ, തീവണ്ടിപ്പാലം

viaduct in Kannada

ಬಾಗುಸಾರ
More languagesFewer languages
viaduct in Tagalog
biyadukto
viaduct in Persian
ویادوک viyâduk
viaduct in Vietnamese
cầu cạn

Examples of viaduct in a sentence

  • There was flooding in the streets between the riverfront and the viaduct.
  • We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says.
  • There are few sights that leave a railway lover more wistful than a desolate railway viaduct no longer carrying tracks.

All 20 example sentences with viaduct

Forms of viaduct

pluralviaducts

Plural of viaduct: viaducts

Origin of viaduct

Coined in 1816, from Latin via (“highway; road”) + English -duct, on the basis of aqueduct.

Words formed from viaduct

Questions about viaduct

What does viaduct mean?
Viaduct means a bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
What is viaduct in Tamil?
Viaduct in Tamil is ஏதண்டம், கடவை, பாதைப்பலம். See Viaduct meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is viaduct?
Viaduct is a noun.
How do you pronounce viaduct?
Viaduct is pronounced /ˈvaɪədʌkt/ (UK).
What is the plural of viaduct?
The plural of viaduct is viaducts.

Words near viaduct in the dictionary

  1. viable
  2. viables
  3. viably
  4. Viacha
  5. Viachaslau
  6. viaduct
  7. viaducted
  8. viaducts
  9. Viaduto do Chá
  10. viae
  11. viae munitae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: viaduct (page history and authors); viaduct (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); viaduct (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); viaduct (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); viaduct (Kannada 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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