viaduct
English
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A train going over a viaduct in France
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvaɪəˌdʌkt/
Noun
viaduct (plural viaducts)
- (transport) A bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- […] 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.
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Translations
bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley
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