crosswalk

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,137 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: crosswalks

A crosswalk is the striped place on the road where walkers may go across. At the crosswalk, wait at the crosswalk, marked crosswalk.

It is the American word; Britain says pedestrian crossing, and the striped kind there is a zebra crossing. American law generally treats an unmarked corner as a crosswalk too, which surprises visitors.

Definitions of crosswalk

1nouncrosswalkThe striped place on the road where walkers may go across.B1+
“The children waited at the crosswalk until all the traffic had stopped.”

crosswalk is a crossing.

Also accepted in games: zebra crossing, pedestrian crossing

Where it comes from

From cross + walk.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the City

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crosswalk in the wild

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