cross-dress

1. 1.

   dress in the clothes of the other sex

   Broaderdress

Questions about cross-dress

What does cross-dress mean?

cross-dress means "dress in the clothes of the other sex".

How many syllables are in cross-dress?

cross-dress has 2 syllables and divides as cross--dress under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is cross-dress a common word?

cross-dress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.