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Definition of Crossing guard
1. Noun. Someone who helps people (especially children) at a traffic crossing.
Definition of Crossing guard
1. Noun. A person who directs vehicular traffic so that pedestrians may cross the right of way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crossing Guard
Literary usage of Crossing guard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. World's Columbian Exposition, 1893: Official Catalogue by Moses Purnell Handy (1893)
"501 The only pneumatic street and crossing guard for the protection of street
crossings of railways at grade and draw bridges that locks its ..."
2. Along French Byways by Clifton Johnson (1912)
"This woman is the crossing guard. She and her family live close by in a small
cottage, that proclaims itself railroad property by having a mammoth number ..."
3. The Exclusive Claims of Puseyite Episcopalians to the Christian Ministry by John Brown (1844)
"... "and with often crossing guard thy forehead, that the destroyer of Egypt find
no place in thee." Lactantius saith, (lib. 4, cap. ..."
4. School Violence: Views of Students & the Community: Congressional Hearings edited by Michael Castle (2001)
"... this may place the student at risk of retaliation for profiting from a fellow
student's arrest. In an effective adaptation of the student crossing guard ..."
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