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Webster 1913 Edition


Viaduct

Viˊa-duct

,
Noun.
[L.
via
a way +
-duct
, as in
aqueduct
: cf. F.
viaduc
. See
Via
, and
Aqueduct
.]
A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf.
Trestlework
.

Definition 2024


viaduct

viaduct

English

A train going over a viaduct in France

Noun

viaduct (plural viaducts)

  1. (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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Noun

viaduct m (plural viaducten, diminutive viaductje n)

  1. viaduct.