crossing

noun

• 1a place where roads or railway lines cross: a stream of cars was waiting for the railway crossing barriers to be opened

• 2a place at which one may safely cross something, especially a street: we were thirty yards from the crossing when a man stepped off the pavement a border crossing

• 3 [mass noun] the action of crossing something:the crossing of the Pennines
• a journey across water in a ship:a short ferry crossing

• 4 Architecture the intersection of a church nave and the transepts: the cathedral has a lantern tower over the crossing