PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes)

Synonyms:

pedestrian crossing; zebra crossing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pedestrian crossing" is a kind of...):

crossing; crossover; crosswalk (a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedestrian crossing"):

pelican crossing (an acronym for pedestrian light control; a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights that are controlled by pedestrians)

school crossing (a pedestrian crossing where school children cross a street on the way to school)