Phrase guide

suspension bridge

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A bridge whose deck or roadway is suspended from wire ropes (cables) or (for some pedestrian bridges) fibrous rope.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: bridge, infrastructure

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noun

Meaning 2

a bridge that has a roadway supported by cables that are anchored at both ends

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: bridge, span

Narrower terms: Angostura Bridge, Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Bosporus Bridge, Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Delaware Memorial Bridge, George Washington Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Humber Bridge, Kammon Strait Bridge, Mackinac Bridge, Pierre Laporte Bridge, Ponte 25 de Abril, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Walt Whitman Bridge

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Across languages

Translations

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: جِسْر مُعَلَّق (jisr muʕallaq) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܸܫܪܵܐ ܬܸܠܝܵܐ (gišrā tilyā) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Armenian: կախովի կամուրջ (kaxovi kamurǰ) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Azerbaijani: asma körpü — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Bulgarian: висящ мост (visjašt most) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Catalan: pont penjant — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Chinese Mandarin: 懸索橋 /悬索桥 (xuánsuǒqiáo) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Chinese Mandarin: 吊橋 /吊桥 (diàoqiáo) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Czech: visutý most — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Danish: hængebro — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Dutch: hangbrug — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Estonian: rippsild — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Finnish: riippusilta — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • French: pont suspendu — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • German: Hängebrücke — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Greek: κρεμαστή γέφυρα (kremastí géfyra) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Hebrew: גֶּשֶׁר תָּלוּי (gésher talúi) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Hindi: झूला पुल (jhūlā pul) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Hungarian: függőhíd — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Indonesian: jembatan gantung — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Irish: droichead crochta — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Italian: ponte sospeso — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Japanese: 吊橋 (tsuribashi) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Japanese: 吊り橋 (tsuribashi) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Kazakh: аспалы көпір (aspaly köpır) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Korean: 현수교 (hyeonsugyo) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Latvian: iekārtais tilts — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Lithuanian: kabantis tiltas — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Malay: jambatan gantung — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Māori: piriti whakatārewa — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Mongolian: дүүжин гүүр (düüžin güür) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hengebro — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hengebru — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hengebru — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hengjebru — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Plautdietsch: Henjbrigj — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Polish: most wiszący — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Portuguese: ponte pênsil — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Romanian: pod suspendat — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Russian: вися́чий мост (visjáčij most) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Slovak: visutý most — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Spanish: puente colgante — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Sundanese: ᮞᮞᮊ᮪ ᮌᮔ᮪ᮒᮥᮀ (sasak gantung) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Swedish: hängbro — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Thai: สะพานแขวน — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Tibetan: འཕྱངས་ཟམ ('phyangs zam) — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Turkish: asma köprü — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Vietnamese: cầu dây võng — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Vietnamese: cầu treo dây võng — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables
  • Welsh: pont grog — bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables