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/əkrˈɔs/ Listen

preposition

Across prep. From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.

To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally.

To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

adverb

Across adv.

From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. (Obs.) "The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ."

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Etymology of 'Across'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Across" Quotes from Famous Books

... doll, Emily, across her knees, and put her face down upon her, and her arms around her, and sat there, not saying one word, not ...

— Sara Crewe - or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... permanent home. If they marry, it is by the merest chance; where can a family be found that has been settled here for several generations? The father amasses wealth, the son spends it, the grandson is a beggar. The largest capitals are not more stable than the waves of the ocean, across the crests of which they ...

— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.

... across the road. He's wondering who you are. He sees we are friends, and he's pretending to be jealous. Dogs are funny, aren't they? But you were speaking about my poems. It's odd that their first criticism should come from you like this. You must be about the same age I was when I began writing—when ...

— Read-Aloud Plays • Horace Holley

... suggestive of a determination that could not have belonged to his boyhood, he set his face toward the world. Down the little hill in the dusk of the evening he went, walking quickly; past the house where the little girl had lived; across the creek at the foot of the hill; and on up the easy rise beyond. And, as he went, there was on his face the look of a man. There was in his eyes a new light—the light of a man's dream. Nor ...

— Their Yesterdays • Harold Bell Wright

... was damp and gloomy and his entrance with the light disturbed a legion of rats, which went scampering off in every direction, from a corner in which they had collected together; as the young man approached that corner, a fetid, sickening odor saluted his nostrils and a fearful thought flashed across his mind; a moment afterwards, his blood curdled with horror, for before him lay the dead body of a man, entirely naked, and far advanced in state of decomposition; and upon that putrefying corpse had the swarm of rats ...

— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn

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