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aqueduct

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈæk.wɪˌdʌkt/
  • US: /ˈæk.wəˌdʌkt/
  • US: /ˈɑk.wəˌdʌkt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: AE1 K W AH0 D AH2 K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially an ancient structure.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

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Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: conduit

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ékweh2 Proto-Italic *akwā Latin aquae Latin ductus Latin aquaeductusbor. English aqueduct Adapted borrowing from Latin aquaeductus (“conveyance of water”), from aqua (“water”) + dūcō (“to lead”, “to bring”); compare the French aqueduc.

Across languages

Translations

103 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: akwaduk — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Albanian: ujësjellës — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Aragonese: auguaduito — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Asturian: acueductu — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Belarusian: акведу́к (akvjedúk) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Belarusian: аквэду́к (akvedúk) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Bulgarian: акведу́кт (akvedúkt) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Catalan: aqüeducte — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Chinese Mandarin: 水渠 (shuǐqú) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Czech: akvadukt — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Danish: akvædukt — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Dutch: aquaduct — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Esperanto: akvedukto — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Finnish: akvedukti — an artificial channel conveying water
  • French: aqueduc — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Galician: levada — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Galician: acueduto — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Georgian: აკვედუკი (aḳveduḳi) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • German: Aquädukt — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Greek: υδραγωγείο (ydragogeío) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Ancient Greek: ὑδραγώγιον (hudragṓgion) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Ancient Greek: ὀχετός (okhetós) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Hungarian: vízvezeték — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Indonesian: akueduk — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Italian: acquedotto — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Japanese: 水道橋 (suidōkyō) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Korean: 수도교 (sudogyo) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Latin: aquaeductus — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Latvian: ūdensvads — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Latvian: akvedukts — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Lithuanian: akvedukas — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Malay: akueduk — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Malayalam: നീർച്ചാൽ (nīṟccāl) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Navajo: tó yaʼnidaʼaazgééd — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Old English: wætergelæt — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Persian: آبراهه (ābrāhe) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Polish: akwedukt — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Portuguese: aqueduto — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Quechua: witkhu — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Quechua: pincha — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Romanian: apeduct — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Russian: акведу́к (akvedúk) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Serbo-Croatian: akvèdukt — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Serbo-Croatian: akvadȕkt — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Serbo-Croatian: vodovod — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Slovak: akvadukt — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Spanish: acueducto — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Sundanese: ᮏᮜᮔ᮪ ᮎᮄ (jalan cai) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Swedish: akvedukt — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Tamil: தொட்டிப் பாலம் (toṭṭip pālam) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Tamil: தொட்டிப்பாலம் (toṭṭippālam) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Thai: สะพานส่งน้ํา (sà-paan-sòng-náam) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Tibetan: ཆུ་ཡུར (chu yur) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Tibetan: ཡུར་བ (yur ba) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Turkish: su kemeri — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Ukrainian: акведу́к (akvedúk) — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Volapük: kvaaduk — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Welsh: dyfrbont — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Welsh: traphont ddŵr — an artificial channel conveying water
  • Asturian: acueductu — a structure carrying water
  • Bulgarian: акведу́кт (akvedúkt) — a structure carrying water
  • Catalan: aqüeducte — a structure carrying water
  • Chinese Mandarin: 水道 (shuǐdào) — a structure carrying water
  • Chinese Mandarin: 水路 (shuǐlù) — a structure carrying water
  • Czech: akvadukt — a structure carrying water
  • Dutch: aquaduct — a structure carrying water
  • Finnish: akvedukti — a structure carrying water
  • French: aqueduc — a structure carrying water
  • Galician: acueduto — a structure carrying water
  • German: Aquädukt — a structure carrying water
  • Greek: υδραγωγείο (ydragogeío) — a structure carrying water
  • Hebrew: אַמַּת מַיִם (amát máyim) — a structure carrying water
  • Hungarian: akvedukt — a structure carrying water
  • Hungarian: akvadukt — a structure carrying water
  • Hungarian: csatornahíd — a structure carrying water
  • Italian: acquedotto — a structure carrying water
  • Japanese: 水道 (suidō) — a structure carrying water
  • Korean: 수도 (sudo) — a structure carrying water
  • Korean: 수로 (suro) — a structure carrying water
  • Latin: aquaeductus — a structure carrying water
  • Latvian: ūdensvads — a structure carrying water
  • Latvian: akvedukts — a structure carrying water
  • Malay: akueduk — a structure carrying water
  • Norwegian Bokmål: akvedukt — a structure carrying water
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: akvedukt — a structure carrying water
  • Old English: wætergelæt — a structure carrying water
  • Polish: akwedukt — a structure carrying water
  • Portuguese: aqueduto — a structure carrying water
  • Romanian: apeduct — a structure carrying water
  • Russian: акведу́к (akvedúk) — a structure carrying water
  • Serbo-Croatian: akvèdukt — a structure carrying water
  • Serbo-Croatian: akvadȕkt — a structure carrying water
  • Serbo-Croatian: vodovod — a structure carrying water
  • Spanish: acueducto — a structure carrying water
  • Tibetan: ཆུ་ཡུར (chu yur) — a structure carrying water
  • Tibetan: ཡུར་བ (yur ba) — a structure carrying water
  • Tibetan: ཡུར་ཟམ (yur zam) — a structure carrying water
  • Volapük: kvaaduk — a structure carrying water
  • Welsh: pont cario dŵr — a structure carrying water
  • Welsh: traphont — a structure carrying water
  • Hungarian: csatorna — anatomy: a structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct
  • Hungarian: zsilip — anatomy: a structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct
  • Tibetan: ཆུ་སྦུབ (chu sbub) — anatomy: a structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct
Real reading context

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