单词 | crossword puzzle |
释义 | crossword puzzlenouna puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues or definitions are supplied and fitted into correspondingly numbered sets of squares, one letter per square, the words being arranged horizontally or vertically so that most letters form part of two words. Origin of crossword puzzle1910–15; cross- + word, allegedly for earlier word cross Words nearby crossword puzzlecross wire, cross wires, crosswise, crossword, crossword dictionary, crossword puzzle, crosswort, crostini, crotal, crotalin, crotamiton Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for crossword puzzlecrossword puzzle / (ˈkrɒsˌwɜːd) / nouna puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal patternSometimes shortened to: crossword Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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