flying bridge

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   the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house

   Synonymsflybridgefly bridgemonkey bridge

   Broaderbridge

Questions about flying bridge

What does flying bridge mean?

flying bridge means "the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house".

What is another word for flying bridge?

Close synonyms include flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flying bridge a common word?

flying bridge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.