Flyover

Quick meaning: Flyover is a noun meaning (US) A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British).

Meaning

(US) A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British).

More Meanings

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Philippines) A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption.
2. (US) A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes.
3. (US, informal, attributive) Middle America, noncoastal America.

Example Sentences

As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.

If Democrats end up flipping state houses in places Trump won in 2016, they will have proved themselves capable of winning in the places coastal elites derisively refer to as “flyover America.”

Boom Town may not be a definitive text—save that for the historians—but it’s a significant update, one that exchanges the dusty pop-cultural clichés of a “flyover” city for the spark of a sincerely enlightening place.

The sales of toy motor-cars were enormous, and not only are there cars, there are all the accessories to go with them. In 1960 there were road sections with flyovers and banked corners on which sports and saloons could whizz along at a speed of 250 m.p.h, which apparently was a real speed of from six to seven miles per hour.

Word Forms

• flyovers
• fly-over

Synonyms for flyover

Depending on context, synonyms include overpass, flypast.

Antonyms for flyover

Common opposites include underpass, flyunder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flypast, overpass, bridge, footbridge, walkway, deck.

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