Noun
a necklace with a gold cross
The teacher marked the absent students on her list with crosses.
Those who could not write signed their names with a cross. Verb
We crossed the state border hours ago.
The dog crossed the street.
The highway crosses the entire state.
He was the first runner to cross the finish line.
The train crosses through France.
Put a nail where the boards cross.
One line crossed the other. Adjective
I didn't mean to make you cross.
I was cross with her for being so careless.
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Noun
An influx of political appointees would weaken those safeguards, potentially leaving Democratic donors in the cross hairs.—Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025 Ronnie wore a white robe and cradled a cross in his arms.—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Verb
But Hegseth – who doesn't have the authority to command troops to cross the border into Mexico – didn't rule out the Trump administration using the U.S. military in Mexico.—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025 Choi plays Ko Gyeom, a movie buff turned critic, who crosses paths with Park’s Kim Mu-bee, a director who enters the film industry out of a love-hate relationship with her father, after years apart.—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 4 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for cross
Word History
Etymology
Noun, Verb, Adjective, Preposition, and Adverb
Middle English, from Old English, from Old Norse or Old Irish; Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin cruc-, crux
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Old English cros, probably from an early Norse or an early Irish word derived from Latin crux "cross" — related to crucial, cruise, crusade, crux, excruciating
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