A place where four roads or streets meet. (Sometimes extended to more than four.)
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| 释义 | society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > cross-roads (13) carfax1357 A place where four roads or streets meet. (Sometimes extended to more than four.) carfour1477 A place where four ways meet, a ‘carfax’. (Formerly quite naturalized, but now treated only as French.) cross1546 The point where two lines or paths cross each other; a crossing, cross-way. cross-way?1556 The place where roads cross; = cross-road, n. 2. quatervois?1575 A place where four ways meet; a crossroads. four-way1598 = four-crossway n. four-crosswaya1645 the place where two roads cross or four roads meet. crossing1695 spec. The intersection of two streets, roads, lines of railway, etc. level crossing n. the intersection of a road and a railway, or of two… four-went way(s1777 Only in four-went way(s, a point where four roads meet. cross-road1812 The place where two roads cross each other; the place of intersection of two roads. Also called the cross roads, and dialect a four-cross-road. cross-street1825 The place where two streets cross. Obsolete. (Cf. cross-road, n. 2.) intersectiona1864 The place where two things intersect or cross, spec. (chiefly North American) = cross-road, n. 2; Geometry, the point (or line) of intersection; the… Subcategories:— meeting of more than four ways (1) |
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