CROSS STREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cross street mean? 

• CROSS STREET (noun)
  The noun CROSS STREET has 1 sense:

1. a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it

  Familiarity information: CROSS STREET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSS STREET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cross street" is a kind of...):

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

 Context examples 

At the corner where the main stream of people flowed onward, he started to edge out into the cross street.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)