across

Speech parts

1. across - Noun

2. across - Adverb

3. across - Preposition

Meaning

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

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

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

crosswise crossways over throughout opposite transversely athwart otherworld mollie between about through down around within

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Antonyms

about around down future along before

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Phrases with the word

across the board come across run across Across the pond come across as across the way

Anagrams

caross

Examples

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. W. Somerset Maugham

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. Matt Groening

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Winston Churchill

When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sill. Yoruba Proverb

The lowest fence is the easiest to get across. Norwegian Proverb

Capacious as the sleeve of a monk and patient as the priest with his arms across his chest. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

acrospiroma acrospore acrosporous across a range of across all across borders