cross street

1. 1.

   a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it

   Broaderstreet

Questions about cross street

What does cross street mean?

cross street means "a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it".

Is cross street a common word?

cross street 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.