viaduct

A blend of Latin via (“highway; road”) + English (aque)duct.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪədʌkt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪəˌdʌk(t)/

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• Hyphenation: via‧duct

viaduct (plural viaducts)

1. (transport) A bridge with several spans that carries rail or road 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.]

• ecoduct
• half viaduct
• viaducted

• aqueduct

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viaduct m (plural viaducten, diminutive viaductje n)

1. viaduct

Borrowed from French viaduc or German Viadukt.

viaduct n (plural viaducte)

1. viaduct