across
preposition
[ əˈkrɒs ]
• from one side to the other of (a place, area, etc.).
• "I ran across the street"
Similar:
to the other side of,
over,
covering,
everywhere on,
on all parts of,
• expressing position or orientation in relation to (an area or passage).
• "they lived across the street from one another"
across
adverb
• from one side to the other of a place, area, etc.
• "he had swum across"
• used to express position or orientation.
• "he looked across at me"
• referring to a crossword answer which reads horizontally.
• "19 across"
Origin:
Middle English (as an adverb meaning ‘in the form of a cross’): from Old French a croix, en croix ‘in or on a cross’, later regarded as being from a-2 + cross.
