OVERPASS (overpast)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: overpast   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does overpass mean? 

• OVERPASS (noun)
  The noun OVERPASS has 1 sense:

1. bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels

  Familiarity information: OVERPASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERPASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

flyover; overpass

Hypernyms ("overpass" is a kind of...):

bridge; span (a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.)

 Context examples 

Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them along the road; or when, while Adele played with her nurse, and Mrs. Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line—that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen—that then I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)