across
Part of speech: prep
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Old Latin en
Latin in
Old French en
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.?
Proto-Italic *kruks /*krukis
Latin crux
Old French crois
Anglo-Norman an croizbor.
Middle English acros
English across
From Middle English acros, from early Middle English a-croiz, a-creoyz, from Anglo-Norman an (“in, on”) + croiz (“in the form of a cross”). More at cross. By surface analysis, a- + cross.
Inflected forms:
form: acrost
pos: prep
tags: alternative
dialectal
nonstandard
form: acrost
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dialectal
nonstandard
form: acrosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acrost
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
pos: prep
examples: We rowed across the river.
Fortunately, there was a bridge across the river.
He came across the street to meet me.
gloss: On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
pos: prep
examples: That store is across the street.
gloss: across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
pos: prep
tags: Southern-US
examples: And make sure you're parked across the mall in the outside lot. […] Last time I was there, I parked in a parking structure and paid an arm and a leg for it.
On another occasion, Clinton asked Patterson to drive him to Chelsea's school, Booker Elementary, where Clinton met the department store clerk and climbed into her car.
"I parked across the entrance and stood outside the car looking around, about 120 feet from where they were parked in a lot that was pretty well lit," Patterson recalled. "[…]They stayed in the car for thirty to forty minutes."
A boy that sat across me politely introduced himself as Jackson Klausner.
gloss: From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
pos: prep
examples: The meteor streaked across the sky.
He walked across the room.
Could you slide that across the table to me, please?
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
gloss: At or near the far end of (a space).
pos: prep
examples: "Mam's baking and Cathleen's asleep. I've got a pile of washing bubbling in the copper, so I'd best be off." With that she was across the room and out the door.
gloss: Spanning.
pos: prep
examples: This poetry speaks across the centuries.
gloss: Throughout.
pos: prep
examples: All across the country, voters were communicating their representatives.
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
gloss: So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
pos: prep
examples: Lay the top stick across the bottom one.
She had straps fastened across the conduit every six feet.
He parked across the end of the driveway, blocking her in.
gloss: In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of.
pos: prep
examples: Keep across all the latest news here at Channel 10.
As a regular news reader I thought I was across the eccentricities of the US president.
gloss: From one side to the other.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: she helped the blind man across; the river is half a mile across
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
gloss: On the other side.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: If we sail off at noon, when will we be across?
gloss: In a particular direction.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He leaned across for a book.
gloss: Horizontally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I got stuck on 4 across.
gloss: A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
often
examples: I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.
Related words: cross
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عَبْرَ
roman: ʕabra
lang: Armenian
word: մյուս կողմում
roman: myus koġmum
lang: Armenian
word: մյուս կողմը
roman: myus koġmə
lang: Armenian
word: դիմացը
roman: dimacʻə
lang: Asturian
word: al otru llau de
lang: Azerbaijani
word: üzbəüz
lang: Bashkir
word: аша
roman: aşa
lang: Belarusian
word: насу́праць
roman: nasúpracʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: насупро́ць
roman: nasuprócʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: оттатък
roman: ottatǎk
lang: Bulgarian
word: отвъд
roman: otvǎd
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 在對面 /在对面
roman: zài duìmiàn
lang: Czech
word: přes
lang: Danish
word: over
lang: Dutch
word: overheen
lang: Dutch
word: tegenover
lang: Esperanto
word: trans
lang: Finnish
word: toisella puolella
lang: West-Frisian
word: dwers
lang: German
word: gegenüber
lang: Greek
word: απέναντι
roman: apénanti
lang: Greek
word: αντίπερα
roman: antípera
lang: Italian
word: attraverso
lang: Italian
word: dall'altra parte
lang: Japanese
word: 向こう
roman: mukō
lang: Korean
word: 반대편에서
roman: bandaepyeoneseo
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: li aliyê din yê
lang: Macedonian
word: преку
roman: preku
lang: Malayalam
word: അപ്പുറം
roman: appuṟaṁ
lang: Polish
word: po drugiej stronie
lang: Polish
word: naprzeciwko
lang: Portuguese
word: do outro lado de
lang: Romanian
word: dincolo de
lang: Romanian
word: peste
lang: Russian
word: че́рез
roman: čérez
lang: Russian
word: напро́тив
roman: naprótiv
lang: Russian
word: на друго́й стороне́
roman: na drugój storoné
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: thar
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: thairis air
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tarsainn air
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prekoputa
lang: Slovak
word: cez
lang: Slovene
word: čez
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: pśez
lang: Spanish
word: al otro lado de
lang: Swedish
word: över
lang: Telugu
word: ఆవల
roman: āvala
lang: Telugu
word: అవతల
roman: avatala
lang: Ukrainian
word: напро́ти
roman: napróty
lang: Ukrainian
word: навпро́ти
roman: navpróty