Dictionary Entry

across

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/əˈkɹɑs/Used In Literature ↓

(crosswords, often in combination) A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue.

In a Sentence

“I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. acrossacross comeacross cameacross wayacross cutacross spreadacross right

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Poetry examples for “across”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

(_Her hand falls out across chair, pointing toward the crib_)

Across the glittering pastures
And empty upland still

For when the knife has slit
The throat across from ear to ear
'Twill bleed because of it."

And where the light in lances
Across the mead was laid,
There to the dances

But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,

Did the nearing bastion loom,
And across the gate of gloom
Still one saw the sentry go,

Many a long league back to the North. At last
From hills that look’d across a land of hope
We dropt with evening on a rustic town

And all things great ; but we, unworthier, told 110
Of college : he had climb’d across the spikes,

Porsena of Clusium, leader of the expelled Tarquins. She escaped
and swam across the Tiber to Rome. sie

' There the smouldering fire of fever creeps across
the rotted floor,