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# crossway

«crossway» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **crossroads** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

crossroads

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A place where two or more roads meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/crossway/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "crossroads." The sentences use the old word.

### examples

- Then they carried out the pots to a crossway. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/crossway/#x1)
- “I had an evil vision,” said she, “I saw crossways. (Irish Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/crossway/#x2)
- Her body was passed underneath the threshold and buried at a crossway. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/crossway/#x3)

### primary record

crossway

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crossway» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/crossway/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.