FluentPlex

crossover

noun C1
  1. A place where one thing crosses over another; a crossing. (countable, uncountable) · Lay one pole over the other and tie them together at the crossover.
  2. The means by which a crossing is made. (countable, uncountable) · To get to the other side of the railway, use the crossover.
  3. A transition. (countable, uncountable) · The company has made a crossover into aerospace technology.· Fans disapprove of the singer's crossover to pop.
  4. A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience. (countable, uncountable)
  5. A combining of characters or plot elements from different fictional universes or settings, or a work that does this. (countable, uncountable) · It's a weird crossover between Harry Potter and Frankenstein.
  6. An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Buick Enclave. (countable, uncountable)
  7. A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them. (countable, uncountable)
  8. A voter registered as a member of one political party or historically associated with such party who votes in the primary of the other party. (US, countable, uncountable)

Plural crossovers

+ Save to review

Other matches

Learn crossover in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.