Viaduct

Definition: Viaduct

Viaduct

Noun

1. Bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley.

Date "viaduct" was first used: 1816. (references)

Etymology: Viaduct \Vi`a*duct\, noun. [Latin expression via way -duct, as in aqueduct: compare to the French expression viaduc. See Via, and Aqueduct.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Viaduct

Domain	Definitions
Building & Civil Engineering	An artificial structure, consisting of arches or spans, by which a roadway, water, etc. is carried over a valley, etc. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms within Context: Viaduct

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Method	Bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway; drawbridge; pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Viaduct

Specialty definitions using "viaduct": cap sill. (references)

Etymologies containing "viaduct": Devious. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Viaduct" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (viaduct).

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Modern Usage: Viaduct

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Now here is a little peninsula and here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland. (The Cocoanuts; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind)
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Commercial Usage: Viaduct

Domain	Title
Books	The extraordinary life and work of Monsieur Gustave Eiffel, the engineer who built the Statue of Liberty, the Porto Bridge, the Nice Observatory, the Garabit Viaduct, the Panama Locks, the Eiffel Tower, etc (reference) The viaduct (reference) The Viaduct Murder (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Viaduct

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Photo Album: Viaduct

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A southeastern view of East Cambridge as seen from the Warren Bridge leading into Charlestown. Glass factories are seen on the right; railroad cars on a viaduct are seen on the left. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841.Credit: America's Coastlines.		Lake front, south of Randolph Street viaduct.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Flour mills and train on Great Northern Viaduct, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress.		The River from the viaduct, Cleveland, O[hio].Credit: Library of Congress.
	Steel viaduct over Des Moines River, Iowa, C. & N.W. Ry. [i.e. Chicago & North Western Railway].Credit: Library of Congress.		Housing under Wisconsin Avenue viaduct. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Credit: Library of Congress.
	East River Drive viaduct. Detail I.Credit: Library of Congress.		New Jersey Turnpike. Viaduct at Newark airport I.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Lynchburg, Va. showing new viaduct.Credit: Library of Congress.		Nicholson Viaduct.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Viaduct

"Viaduct" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.17% of the time. "Viaduct" is used about 120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	89.17%	107	31,463
Noun (proper)	8.33%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.5%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	120	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Viaduct

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
viaduct	27
cove linn viaduct	8
column viaduct	7
paulinskill viaduct	7
kinzua viaduct	6
tunkhannock viaduct	3
theater viaduct	3
edward prince toronto viaduct	3
starrucca viaduct	2
garabit viaduct	2
nicholson viaduct	2
photo viaduct	2
glenfinnan viaduct	2
superior viaduct	2
bloor st viaduct	2
cove linn photo viaduct	2
creek panther viaduct	2
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Modern Translations: Viaduct

Language		Translations for "viaduct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		viadukt, urë-rrugë. (various references)

Arabic		‏جسر (bridge, dare, embankment, pier). (various references)

Bulgarian		виадукт. (various references)

Czech		viadukt. (various references)

Danish		viadukt. (various references)

Dutch		viaduct. (various references)

Finnish		maasilta. (various references)

French		viaduc. (various references)

German		Viadukt. (various references)

Greek		οδογέφυρα. (various references)

Hebrew		מעבר מים (culvert), �'שר �"רכים. (various references)

Hungarian		viadukt. (various references)

Indonesian		jembatan di atas jalan. (various references)

Italian		viadotto (elevated guide way, elevated road, overpass, road overpass, stilted road). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		陸橋 (overhead bridge, overland bridge, overpass), 掛け橋 (go-between, mediation, suspension bridge, temporary bridge), 懸け橋 (go-between, mediation, suspension bridge, temporary bridge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かけはし (bridge building, cross-linking, go-between, mediation, suspension bridge, temporary bridge), りっきょう (overhead bridge, overland bridge, overpass). (various references)

Manx		tarvollagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		iaductvay

Portuguese		viaduto. (various references)

Romanian		viaduct. (various references)

Russian		виадук, путепровод. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vijadukt. (various references)

Spanish		viaducto. (various references)

Swedish		viadukt (flyover, overpass). (various references)

Turkish		viyadük (trestlework), karayolu köprüsü. (various references)

Ukranian		віадук. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Viaduct

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	via. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Viaduct

Derivations
	Words beginning with "viaduct": viaducts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Viaduct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: viaaduct, viduct, vivaduct. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Viaduct"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "viaduct" (pronounced vī"udukt)
4	-d u k t	byproduct, misconduct, product.
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Anagrams: Viaduct

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: audit, davit, dicta, ducat, vatic.
	-3 letters: acid, adit, avid, cadi, caid, daut, dita, diva, duci, duct, duit, vatu, vita.
	-4 letters: act, aid, ait, cad, cat, cud, cut, dit, dui, tad, tau, tav, tic, tui, uta, vac, vat, vau, via.
	-5 letters: ad, ai, at, id, it, ta, ti, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: viaducts.
	+2 letters: adductive, educative, oviductal, victualed.
	+3 letters: adjunctive, cultivated, incurvated, outcaviled, victualled.
	+4 letters: diverticula, duplicative, elucidative, equivocated, outachieved, outcavilled, reeducative, revictualed, underactive, vesiculated.
	+5 letters: adjudicative, cocultivated, denunciative, diverticular, recultivated, revictualled, uncultivated, unvaccinated, vasculitides, vermiculated.
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