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adjective

cross-country adj.

From one side of a country to the other; as, a cross-country railway.

Moving across open country rather than following tracks or roads; as, a cross-country race. Opposite of road.

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Etymology of 'Cross-country'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cross-country" Quotes from Famous Books

... Troubles," he said, looking out into the swirl of snow. "Just the beautifulest kind of cross-country weather!" He sang on: ...

— Aladdin O'Brien • Gouverneur Morris

... comprising ninety-nine point nine plus percent of the input, went out through another conveyor into the vast hold of a vehicle which, when full and replaced by a duplicate of itself, went careening madly cross-country to a dump. ...

— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith

... thoughts travel fast," Fiddling Bob's nephew remarked some years later when setting out on a cross-country journey. "The Park-to-Park Highway grows annually and this Skyline Drive, which is a part of the plan, is one of the most alluring of all modern roads." Starting at Front Royal, the northern entrance to the Shenandoah Valley ...

— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

... there was as much good-will and character. Yet it had some elements of curiosity. There was a mixed group of Swedes, Danes, and Norsemen, one of whom, generally known by the name of "Johnny," in spite of his own protests, greatly diverted us by his clever, cross-country efforts to speak English, and became on the strength of that an universal favourite—it takes so little in this world of shipboard to create a popularity. There was, besides, a Scots mason known from his favourite dish as "Irish ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 2 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... enthusiastically of the raptures he experienced when sailing over London in night hours, of lofty ascents and extremely low temperatures, of speeding twenty-eight miles in twenty minutes, of grapnel ropes breaking, and of a cross-country race of four miles through woods and hedges. Such was Mr. Spencer the elder, and if further evidence were needed of his practical acquaintance with, as well as personal devotion to, his adopted profession of aeronautics, we have it in the store ...

— The Dominion of the Air • J. M. Bacon

Words linked to "Cross-country" : cross-country riding, cross-country jumping