aqueduct

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: aq=ue=duct

CIDE DICTIONARY

aqueduct, n. [F. aqueduc, OF. aqueduct (Cotgr.), fr. L. aquaeductus; aquae, gen. of aqua water + ductus a leading, ducere to lead. See Aqua, Duke.].

•  A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.  [1913 Webster]

  " The term is also applied to a structure (similar to the ancient aqueducts), for conveying a canal over a river or hollow; more properly called an aqueduct bridge."  [1913 Webster]
•  A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

aqueduct, n.
1 an artificial channel for conveying water, esp. in the form of a bridge supported by tall columns across a valley.
2 Physiol. a small canal, esp. in the head of mammals.

Etymology

L aquae ductus conduit f. aqua water + ducere duct- to lead

THESAURUS

aqueduct

arroyo, bed, canal, canalization, channel, conduit, course, creek bed, crimp, culvert, cut, dike, ditch, donga, dry bed, duct, entrenchment, flume, fosse, goffer, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gutter, ha-ha, headrace, irrigation ditch, kennel, moat, nullah, pleat, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, sluice, spillbox, spillway, stream bed, streamway, sunk fence, swash, swash channel, tailrace, trench, trough, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks

ROGET THESAURUS

aqueduct

Conduit

N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.