Usually means: From one side to another.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word Across:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. across: Merriam-Webster
  2. across: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. across: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. across: Collins English Dictionary
  5. across: Vocabulary.com
  6. Across, across: Wordnik
  7. across: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. across: Wiktionary
  9. across: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. across: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. across: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Across, across: Dictionary.com
  13. across: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. across: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Across: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Across: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. across: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. across: Rhymezone
  19. across: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. across: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. across: FreeDictionary.org
  22. across: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. across: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. across: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. across: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. across: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. across: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ACROSS: Acronym Finder
  2. across: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. across: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (across)

▸ adverb:  From one side to the other.
▸ adverb:  On the other side.
▸ adverb:  In a particular direction.
▸ adverb:  (crosswording) Horizontally.
▸ noun:  (crosswording, often in combination) A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue.

Similar:
crossways, intersectant, crossed, crosswise, decussate, over, intersecting, accross, around, throughout, more...

Opposite:
away, from, apart, distant, separate, aloof

Types:
over, through, by, past, more...

Phrases:
come across, across from, came across, cut across, ran across, more...

Adjectives:
same, wide, year, short, more, broad, current, come, sharp, large, little


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Similar:
crossways, intersectant, crossed, crosswise, decussate, over, intersecting, accross, around, throughout, more...

Opposite:
away, from, apart, distant, separate, aloof

Types:
over, through, by, past, more...

Phrases:
come across, across from, came across, cut across, ran across, comes across, run across, get across, cuts across, running across, cutting across, coming across, across country, was across, look across, is across, more...

Adjectives:
same, wide, year, short, more, broad, current, come, sharp, large, little



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