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viaduct

noun
🔊/ˈvaɪədʌkt/
🔊/ˈvaɪədʌkt/
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  1. a long, high bridge, usually with arches, that carries a road or railway across a river or valley高架桥（通常有拱，横跨河道或山谷连通公路或铁路）
    • A train was crossing the viaduct.火车正在穿越高架桥。
    • a railway viaduct over the river这条河上的铁路高架桥
    Topics Transport by car or lorryc2, Transport by bus and trainc2, Buildingsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryViaduct is used after these nouns:
    • railway
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    Word Originearly 19th cent.: from Latin via ‘way’, on the pattern of aqueduct.