flying buttress

1. 1.

   a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch

   Synonymsarc-boutant

   Broaderbuttress

Questions about flying buttress

What does flying buttress mean?

flying buttress means "a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch".

What is another word for flying buttress?

Close synonyms include arc-boutant. 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 buttress a common word?

flying buttress 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.