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crossways

crossways is the plural of crossway.

Meaning of crossway

Noun

crossway (plural crossways)

  1. (archaic) A crossroad.
    • You're young, Mord Em'ly, and you've come now, it seems to me, to an important kind of crossway in your life, and if you take the wrong turning you'll lose yourself.1898, W. Pett Ridge, Mord Em'ly, Chapter 17

Adverb

crossways (not comparable)

  1. transversely; crosswise
    • I stared and stared again - he was perfectly right - the torches that were to light our entertainment were human mummies from the caves! On rushed the bearers of the flaming corpses, and, meeting at a spot about twenty paces in front of us, built their ghastly burdens crossways into a huge bonfire.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Crossways

Crossways

  1. A village and civil parish between Dorchester and Wool, Dorset (OS grid ref SY7688).
  2. A hamlet in Thornbury parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire (OS red ref ST6590).
  3. A hamlet in Crucorney community, Monmouthshire (OS grid ref SO3220; not to be confused with Crossway in the same county).
  4. A neighbourhood at a crossroads in Churt parish, Waverley borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU8538).

Origin of crossways

From cross + -ways.

Questions about crossways

What does crossways mean?
Crossways means transversely; crosswise.
What is crossways the plural of?
Crossways is the plural of crossway.
What part of speech is crossways?
Crossways can be an adverb or a proper noun.

Words near crossways in the dictionary

  1. crosswalking
  2. crosswalks
  3. crosswall
  4. crosswalls
  5. crossway
  6. crossways
  7. crosswedge
  8. Crosswhite
  9. Crosswhites
  10. crosswind
  11. crosswinds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crossways (page history and authors); Crossways (page history and authors); crossway (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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