//ˈkɹɒs.ɪŋ// name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Abbreviation of crossing or pedestrian crossing. US, abbreviation, alt-of
"Railroad xing 200 feet ahead."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of xing. alt-of
- 3 Alternative letter-case form of xing. alt-of
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of X form-of, gerund, participle, present
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
"But Liu Xianglun (later a political affairs counselor to Belgium), who was also at the Central Social Department at the same time Ye Chengzhang was there and who escorted Wang to Xing County, Shanxi Province, remembers that Wang protested both during the trial and on the way to Xing County that he was not a Trotskyite."
Example
More examples"Follow us on Facebook and on XING!"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From x- as short for cross- in crossing.
Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邢 (Xíng).
Etymology 3
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興 /兴 (Xīng).
Etymology 4
From X + -ing.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.