Overpass
Definitions
A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.
Canada, Philippines, US
Equivalents
DeutschÜberführung
20 more languages
Българскина́длез
Češtinanadjezd
Ελληνικάανισόπεδη διάβαση
हिन्दीउपरिगामी सेतु
Magyarfelüljáró
Bahasa Indonesiajalan layang
ქართულიმიწისზედა გადასასვლელი
한국어횡단육교
Македонскинадвозник
Portuguêsviaduto
Examples
“The homeless man had built a little shelter⟳, complete⟳ with cook-stove, beneath a concrete overpass.”
“By visible evidence, this Saturday morning is a comparatively placid one. Earlier in the week a young man had died after being stabbed in a flat, and from the overpass at Archway Road, darkly referred to as “suicide bridge,” another man had jumped to his death.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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