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单词 cross-street
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cross-streetn.

Etymology: cross- comb. form 1b(a), cross adj. 1b.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcross-street.
1. A street crossing another, or running across between two main streets; a street at right angles to a main street.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > side or cross
side street1617
by-street1684
return1756
off-street1793
cross-street1827
rat-run1966
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 234 The principal streets are terminated by views of the hills..The cross streets are narrower.
1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. ii. 8 There are a few short cross-streets.
2. The place where two streets cross. Obsolete. (Cf. cross-road n. 2.)
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > cross-roads
carfax1357
carfour1477
cross1546
cross-way?1556
quatervois?1575
four-way1598
four-crosswaya1645
crossing1695
four-went way(s1777
cross-road1812
cross-street1825
intersectiona1864
1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 89 Keeping great fires at all the cross-streets.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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