crosscountryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

crosscountry (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 crosscountries または crosscountrys)

1. Alternative form of cross country

名詞

cross country (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cross countries または cross countrys)

1. (sports) A running sport popular in US high schools, colleges, etc., where participants race over varying terrain (e.g. golf courses, roads, etc.) in approximately 5- to 10-kilometre races. Abbreviated XC.
2. A phase of the equestrian sport of three day eventing, which the horse and rider travel over varied terrain and jump natural obstacles.
3. (countable) Flight between two points or aerodromes using navigational techniques.

関連する語

• cross-country (adjective)
• cross-country skiing

語源

From cross- +‎ country.

形容詞

cross-country (not comparable)

1. From one side of a country to the other.
   • 1940 May, “Items of Interest: From Chippenham to Hay”, in Railway Magazine, page 319:

     There are certain parts of Great Britain in which, even in peace time, the speed of cross-country travel has made no advance for more than half-a-century.

   • 1963 February, G. M. Kichenside, “The Newport (Mon.) resignalling scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 125:

     Passenger traffic consists largely of through expresses from London, Bristol and Birmingham to South Wales via Severn Tunnel Junction, and cross-country trains from the north and Midlands via Pontypool Road. (In Britain cross-country trains connect regional centres, かつ avoid London.)

   • 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 102–103:

     I made reservations for three with USAir, Manchester, New Hampshire, to Seattle, Washington. […] I negotiated with Polly's doctors to transfer her treatment cross-country.

2. Across countryside.
3. Relating to cross country racing.
4. (of data または research) Across countries; international.

同意語

• (across countries): cross-countries

名詞

cross-country (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cross-countries または cross-countrys)

1. Alternative form of cross country

参考

• cross-country skiing

参照

• “cross-country” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “cross-country”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “cross-country”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.