/ˈkɹɒs.ɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of xing.
name
A surname.
verb
present participle and gerund of X
noun
Alternative letter-case form of xing.
Example Sentences
- "Railroad xing 200 feet ahead."
- "But Liu Xianglun (later a political affairs counselor to Belgium), who was also at the Central Social Department at the same time Ye Chengzhang was there and who escorted Wang to Xing County, Shanxi Province, remembers that Wang protested both during the trial and on the way to Xing County that he was not a Trotskyite."
- "Last summer, Mupona and more than 10 African youths came to Xingxian County, Shanxi Province to explore the magic code of poverty alleviation in this former national poverty-stricken county."
- "Police in the central Chinese province of Shanxi have detained a 27-year-old man accused of killing at least seven people, four of them by driving into a group of pedestrians and cars. Authorities in the city of Luliang said on Sunday that the suspect, identified only by his surname Guo, allegedly went to the home of a 21-year-old married woman in Xing county at around 2pm on Saturday, killing her husband, son and mother-in-law."
Etymology
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Usage
- American usage