land bridge

See also: landbridge

English

Noun

land bridge (plural land bridges)

1. (biogeography) An isthmus or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses.
2. (Ireland, British, travel) Travel by ferry from one country, via another country by road, then by another ferry crossing to a third country. An example is from Ireland by ferry to the UK, by road to the opposite coast, then ferry to France.
   • 2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 25:

     His reference to waves of lorries on the A55 that match ferry schedules may become dated. Until very recently, the A55 formed part of a land bridge between Ireland and continental Europe. However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, [...].

Derived terms

• De Geer Land Bridge

 

Translations

isthmus

• Belarusian: перашыек m (pjerašyjek)
• Catalan: pont terrestre
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陸橋／陆桥 (zh) (lùqiáo)

• Danish: landbro c
• Dutch: landbrug (nl)
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• Finnish: kannas (fi), maakannas
• French: pont terrestre m
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: droichead talún m
• Italian: ponte continentale
• Korean: 육교(陸橋) (yukgyo)
• Polish: pomost lądowy m
• Portuguese: ponte terrestre
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• Russian: переше́ек (ru) m (perešéjek)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: puente terrestre
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• Ukrainian: сухопу́тний міст m (suxopútnyj mist)

travel by ferry

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: maasilta
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References

• “land bridge”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• bladdering