Results for bridge

Definitions of bridge:

part of speech: verb transitive

To build a bridge over; span; find a way of overcoming.

part of speech: verb transitive

To build a bridge over.

part of speech: noun

A structure of iron, stone, or wood, built across a river, road, valley, etc.; anything resembling a bridge in form or use, as the upper bony part of the nose, or the arch for the strings on a violin; a game of cards, first known as bridge- whist; the platform above the deck of a ship used as an observation station by the officer in charge.

part of speech: noun

A roadway over arches spanning a river, a valley, & c.; the part of a stringed instrument over which the strings are stretched.

part of speech: verb

To stretch a roadway across, as over a river.

part of speech: noun

A structure raised across a river, etc.: anything like a bridge.

Usage examples for bridge:

• To the bridge which few may pass came young and old. "The King in Yellow", Robert W. Chambers

• Three and a half miles below Mechanicsville Bridge is New Bridge "Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War", G. F. R. Henderson

• I heard a noise under the bridge "Twenty Years of Hus'ling", J. P. Johnston

• We have often been told that we should build a golden bridge for a flying enemy. "The Bertrams", Anthony Trollope