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cross-countries

cross-countries is the plural of cross-country.

Meaning of cross-country

Adjective

cross-country (not comparable)

  1. From one side of a country to the other.
    • 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.1940 May, “Items of Interest: From Chippenham to Hay”, in Railway Magazine, page 319
  2. Across countryside.
  3. Relating to cross country racing.
    • It involves bloodhounds and horse riders pursuing not foxes but cross-country runners.2025 November 15, Matthew Weaver, “‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  4. Across countries; international.
    Synonyms:
    cross-countries

Adjective

cross-countries (not comparable)

  1. Across or between countries.
    • diminishing cross-countries disparities in Internet use

Questions about cross-countries

What does cross-countries mean?
Cross-countries means across or between countries.
What is cross-countries the plural of?
Cross-countries is the plural of cross-country.
What part of speech is cross-countries?
Cross-countries is an adjective.

Words near cross-countries in the dictionary

  1. cross-correlations
  2. cross-counter
  3. cross-countered
  4. cross-countering
  5. cross-counters
  6. cross-countries
  7. cross-country
  8. cross-country ski
  9. cross-country skied
  10. cross-country skier
  11. cross-country skiers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cross-countries (page history and authors); cross-country (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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