Noun: viaduct
| Singular | viaduct |
| Plural | viaducts |
Sample Sentences
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[…] 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. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
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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.] [1944 January and February, C. F. Cobon, “The County of London Plan”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:]
Nouns inflected like viaduct
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Coined in 1816, from Latin via (“highway; road”) + English -duct, on the basis of aqueduct. See: Latin Nouns '
via'.
Verbs referencing "viaduct"
Polish Nouns
wiadukt, Hungarian Nouns
viadukt, Finnish Nouns
viadukti.