Dictionary Entry
across
across is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
- 2adverb
From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
- 3adverb
Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
- 4adverb
transversely
"the marble slabs were cut across"
- 5adverb
to the opposite side
"the football field was 300 feet across"
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