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Definition of Crosstown
1. Adverb. Across a town or city. "He traveled crosstown"
2. Adjective. Going or extending across a town or city. "Crosstown traffic"
Definition of Crosstown
1. Adjective. (American English) Extending across a city or town. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: public transportation) Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown. ¹
3. Adjective. Situated at the other end of town. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crosstown
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crosstown
Literary usage of Crosstown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. City Planning for Newark by Newark (N.J.). City Plan Commission, David Grotta (1913)
"crosstown Highways—East and West The main east-and-west crosstown thoroughfares
are Park Avenue and its connections, Orange Street, Central Avenue, ..."
2. City Planning for Newark by Newark (N.J.). City Plan Commission, David Grotta (1913)
"crosstown Highways—East and West The main east-and-west crosstown thoroughfares
are Park Avenue and its connections, Orange Street, Central Avenue, ..."
3. The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City by Harry James Carman (1919)
"THE CENTRAL crosstown RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW YORK The legislature in 1873 granted
franchises for the Central crosstown, the Christopher and Tenth Street, ..."
4. Passenger Transportation Service in the City of New York: A Report to the by Merchants' Association of New York, Committee on engineering and sanitation (1903)
"IN Manhattan there are some thirty crosstown and horse car lines, of which
twenty-four are distinctively crosstown lines —that is to say, ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"NEW YORK RAILWAYS CO. committee nor the Trust Company representing the crosstown
bondholders as sented to the plan for reorganizing the Metropolitan Company ..."
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