cross-country
See also: cross country
English
Alternative forms
- cross country, crosscountry
Etymology
From cross- + country.
Adjective
cross-country (not comparable)
- From one side of a country to the other.
- 1940 May, “Items of Interest: From Chippenham to Hay”, in Railway Magazine, page 319:
- There are certain parts of Great Britain in which, even in peace time, the speed of cross-country travel has made no advance for more than half-a-century.
- 1963 February, G. M. Kichenside, “The Newport (Mon.) resignalling scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 125:
- Passenger traffic consists largely of through expresses from London, Bristol and Birmingham to South Wales via Severn Tunnel Junction, and cross-country trains from the north and Midlands via Pontypool Road. (In Britain cross-country trains connect regional centres, and avoid London.)
- 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 102–103:
- I made reservations for three with USAir, Manchester, New Hampshire, to Seattle, Washington. […] I negotiated with Polly's doctors to transfer her treatment cross-country.
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- Across countryside.
- Relating to cross country racing.
- (of data or research) Across countries.
Synonyms
- (across countries): cross-countries
Translations
relating to cross country racing
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Noun
cross-country (countable and uncountable, plural cross-countries or cross-countrys)
- Alternative form of cross country
See also
- cross-country skiing
References
- “cross-country” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “cross-country”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “cross-country”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
French
Etymology
From English cross country.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁɔs.kœn.tʁi/
Audio (file)
Noun
cross-country m (uncountable)
- (sports) cross country running (sport)
Further reading
- “cross-country”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.