viaduct
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viaduct (plural viaducts)
- (transport) A bridge with several spans that carries road or rail 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.]
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bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley
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viaduct m (plural viaducten, diminutive viaductje n)
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Borrowed from French viaduc or German Viadukt.
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viaduct n (plural viaducte)
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) viaduct | viaductul | (niște) viaducte | viaductele |
genitive/dative | (unui) viaduct | viaductului | (unor) viaducte | viaductelor |
vocative | viaductule | viaductelor |