viaduct

English

Etymology

A train going over a viaduct in France.

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

Pronunciation

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

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

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• Hyphenation: via‧duct

Noun

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.]

Derived terms

• ecoduct
• half viaduct
• viaducted

Related terms

• aqueduct

Translations

bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley, etc.

• Armenian: ուղանցույց (hy) (uġancʻuycʻ)
• Basque: zubibide
• Belarusian: віяду́к m (vijadúk)
• Bulgarian: виаду́кт m (viadúkt)
• Catalan: viaducte m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高架橋 / 高架桥 (zh) (gāojiàqiáo)

• Czech: viadukt (cs) m
• Danish: viadukt (da) c
• Dutch: viaduct (nl) n or m
• Esperanto: viadukto (eo)
• Estonian: viadukt (et)
• Finnish: maasilta (fi)
• French: viaduc (fr) m
• Georgian: ვიადუკი (viaduḳi)
• German: Viadukt (de) n
• Hungarian: viadukt (hu), völgyhíd (hu)
• Italian: viadotto (it) m, cavalcavia (it) m
• Japanese: ガード (ja) (gādo), 高架橋 (ja) (こうかきょう, kōkakyō), 陸橋 (ja) (rikkyou)
• Korean: 고가교 (ko) (gogagyo)
• Macedonian: вијаду́кт m (vijadúkt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: viadukt m

  Nynorsk: viadukt m

• Persian: ویادوک (viyâduk)
• Plautdietsch: Wotabrigj f
• Polish: wiadukt (pl) m
• Portuguese: viaduto (pt) m
• Russian: виаду́к (ru) m (viadúk)
• Slovak: viadukt m
• Spanish: viaducto m
• Swedish: viadukt (sv) c
• Tagalog: biyadukto
• Turkish: viyadük (tr)
• Ukrainian: віаду́к (uk) m (viadúk)
• Vietnamese: cầu cạn
• Volapük: viaduk (vo)

Further reading

• viaduct on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

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Noun

viaduct m (plural viaducten, diminutive viaductje n)

1. viaduct

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French viaduc or German Viadukt.

Noun

viaduct n (plural viaducte)

1. viaduct

Declension

Declension of viaduct

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	viaduct	viaductul		viaducte	viaductele
genitive-dative	viaduct	viaductului		viaducte	viaductelor
vocative	viaductule			viaductelor