crosswalk

English

New York crosswalks

Pedestrian crossing sign in Iran

Alternative forms

• xwalk (abbreviation)

Etymology

From cross +‎ walk.

Pronunciation

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Noun

crosswalk (plural crosswalks)

1. (US) A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.
2. (databases) A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

Synonyms

• crossing
• pedestrian crossing

Hyponyms

• crossover
• pelican crossing, puffin crossing, toucan crossing
• zebra crossing

Translations

place where pedestrians can cross a street

• Azerbaijani: yayaq keçidi
• Belarusian: пешаходны пераход m (pješaxódny pjeraxód)
• Burmese: လူကူးကူး (luku:ku:)
• Catalan: pas de vianants (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 斑馬線／斑马线 (baan¹ maa⁵ sin³), 行人穿越道 (hang⁴ jan⁴ cyun¹ jyut⁶ dou⁶)

  Hokkien: 斑馬線／斑马线 (zh-min-nan) (pan-má-sòaⁿ, pan-bé-sòaⁿ), 過路線／过路线 (kòe-lō͘-sòaⁿ, kè-lō͘-sòaⁿ)

  Mandarin: 斑馬線／斑马线 (zh) (bānmǎxiàn), 行人穿越道 (xíngrén chuānyuèdào)

• Czech: přechod pro chodce (cs) m
• Danish: fodgængerfelt (da) n
• Dutch: oversteekplaats (nl), zebrapad (nl) n
• Esperanto: transirejo
• Estonian: jalakäijate ületamine
• Finnish: suojatie (fi)
• French: passage piéton (fr) m
• German: Zebrastreifen (de) m, Fußgängerübergang (de) m
• Hindi: पैदल यात्री क्रॉसिंग m (paidal yātrī krŏsiṅg)
• Hungarian: gyalogátkelőhely (hu)
• Icelandic: gangbraut f
• Indonesian: jalur pejalan kaki
• Irish: trasrian síogach m, trasrian coisithe m
• Italian: strisce pedonali f pl
• Japanese: 横断歩道 (ja) (おうだんほどう, ōdan hodō)
• Korean: 횡단보도(橫斷步道) (ko) (hoengdanbodo)
• Macedonian: пешачки премин m (pešački premin)
• Malay: trek pejalan kaki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gangfelt n, fotgjengerovergang m

• Portuguese: faixa de pedestres (pt) f, faixa (pt)
• Romanian: trecere pietonală f
• Russian: пешехо́дный перехо́д (ru) m (pešexódnyj perexód)
• Spanish: cruce (es) m, paso de peatones
• Swedish: övergångsställe (sv) n
• Tagalog: tawiran (tl)
• Tajik: пиёдагард (tg) (piyodagard)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yaya geçidi (tr)
• Uzbek: piyodalar izi
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: croesfan zebra f

Verb

crosswalk (third-person singular simple present crosswalks, present participle crosswalking, simple past and past participle crosswalked)

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

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