Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
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- [uh-kraws, uh-kros]
- /əˈkrɔs, əˈkrɒs/
- /əˈkrɒs/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [uh-kraws, uh-kros]
- /əˈkrɔs, əˈkrɒs/
Definitions of across word
- preposition across If someone or something goes across a place or a boundary, they go from one side of it to the other. 3
- preposition across Across is also an adverb. 3
- preposition across If something is situated or stretched across something else, it is situated or stretched from one side of it to the other. 3
- preposition across If something is lying across an object or place, it is resting on it and partly covering it. 3
- preposition across Something that is across something such as a street, river, or area is on the other side of it. 3
- adverb across If you look across at a place, person, or thing, you look towards them. 3
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Origin of across
First appearance:
before 1470 One of the 25% oldest English words
First recorded in 1470-80; a-1 + cross
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Across
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
across popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
across usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for across
prep across
- crosswise — Crosswise means diagonally across something.
- athwart — transversely; from one side to another
- beyond — If something is beyond a place or barrier, it is on the other side of it.
- cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
preposition across
- through — in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other: to pass through a tunnel; We drove through Denver without stopping. Sun came through the window.
- past — gone by or elapsed in time: It was a bad time, but it's all past now.
- throughout — in or to every part of; everywhere in: They searched throughout the house.
- within — in or into the interior or inner part; inside.
- round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
adverb across
- crossways — crosswise.
- diagonally — Mathematics. connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line. extending from one edge of a solid figure to an opposite edge, as a plane.
adjective across
- transatlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
- overseas — over, across, or beyond the sea; abroad: to be sent overseas.
- mullioned — a vertical member, as of stone or wood, between the lights of a window, the panels in wainscoting, or the like.
- aslant — at a slant
- longways — longwise.
Antonyms for across
adverb across
- fore and aft — situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.
- lengthwise — In a direction parallel with a thing's length.
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See also
Matching words
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