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# flyover

noun (a flyover, flyovers)

«flyover» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (UK, Australia) A flyover is a bridge that carries one road over another road or railway. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/#m1)
2. (US) A flyover, also flypast (UK), is a planned flight of aircraft low over a place for a show or ceremony. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/#m2)
3. (US informal) «Flyover country» is a joking name for the middle states of the USA that people fly over between the coasts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/#m3)

### In the lessons

Everyday travel and geography (roads and junctions); ceremonies (the Red Arrows flypast). Phrases: go over the flyover, under the flyover, military flyover.

### Examples

- The bus went over the flyover into town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/#x1)
- The skateboarders met under the flyover. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/#x2)
- (US) Jets did a flyover at the football game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/#x3)
- The new flyover stops traffic jams at the junction. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/#x4)
- In the UK, the Red Arrows do a flypast, which Americans call a flyover. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/#x5)
- We could see the river from the top of the flyover. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/#x6)

### Note

US English often says overpass for the road bridge. Countable. One word.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «flyover» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flyover/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«flyover» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/flyover.html) on Mova free.