English-French translations for across

• à travers
  Il s'aggrave à travers toute l'Europe. It is getting worse right across Europe.
  Elle touche 14 millions de femme à travers l’Europe. It affects 14 million women across Europe.
  Cela garantit la cohésion sociale à travers l'Europe. This guarantees social cohesion across Europe.
• outre
  Mais n'oublions pas pour autant ce qui s'est passé Outre-Atlantique. However, let us not forget what happened across the Atlantic.
  En outre, le fait que les subventions de l'UE ne reçoivent pas une enveloppe globale pose problème. We need a uniform attitude to national cofinancing across the Union.
  Permettez-moi de tourner mes regards outre-Atlantique, vers les États-Unis. Permit me to take a look across the big pond at the US in this regard.
• par
  Ce crime se propage par-delà les frontières. This crime is developing across borders.
  Nous nous savons soutenues par les femmes du monde entier. We are supported by women across the world.
  Ces préoccupations sont partagées par d'autres partout en Europe. There are also great concerns across Europe.
• par-delà
  Ce crime se propage par-delà les frontières. This crime is developing across borders.
  En effet, le pacte de stabilité présente aussi un grand intérêt par-delà les frontières de la région. Indeed, the Stability Pact applies just as much across the borders of the region.
  La circulation des personnes par-delà les frontières nationales rend cette évolution inévitable. This is the inevitable result of the movement of people across international borders.

Definition of across

• To, toward or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest
• On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest
• across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest
• From one side to the other within (a space being traversed
• At or near the far end of (a space
• Spanning
• Throughout
• So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle
• In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of
• From one side to the other
• On the other side
• In a particular direction
• Horizontally
• A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue

Examples

• We rowed across the river
• Fortunately, there was a bridge across the river
• He came across the street to meet me
• That store is across the street
• The meteor streaked across the sky
• He walked across the room
• Could you slide that across the table to me, please?
• This poetry speaks across the centuries
• All across the country, voters were communicating their representatives
• Lay the top stick across the bottom one
• She had straps fastened across the conduit every six feet
• she helped the blind man across;  the river is half a mile across
• If we sail off at noon, when will we be across?
• He leaned across for a book
• I got stuck on 4 across
• I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.

Related words

• lacrosse
• cut-across
• across from
• across the pond
• across abeam
• across the board
• across flats
• across Germany
• across the whole of Germany