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say it: VAHY-uh-duhkt
viaduct is a noun meaning "bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley". It is pronounced /ˈvaɪədəkt/ — VAHY-uh-duhkt. It carries one recorded sense.
bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for viaduct come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.