noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street. US

   "Keep together, kids, when we go across the sreet in/at the crosswalk."

2. 2
   a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other wordnet
3. 3
   A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

Verb

1. 1
   To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

Synonyms

All synonyms

crossingcrossingcrossoverflyoverintersectionovercrossing

Example

More examples

"You should be more careful at a crosswalk."

Etymology

From cross + walk.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.