单词 | cross-street |
释义 | cross-streetn. 1. A street crossing another, or running across between two main streets; a street at right angles to a main street. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1825 |
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