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Word entry · 5 letters

cross

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5 lettersPronunciation /kɹɒs/Part of speech noun, adjective, verbSorted corssStarts with CEnds with S1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Go from one side to the other

Word origin

From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux (crucī). In this sense displaced native Middle English rode, from Old English rōd (“cross”); see English rood. Doublet of crouch (“cross”) and crux. Compare Welsh croes, Irish crois.

Used in a sentence

  • Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
  • Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.
  • True Cross

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