grade crossing

1. 1.

   intersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass

   Synonymslevel crossing

   Broaderintersection

Questions about grade crossing

What does grade crossing mean?

grade crossing means "intersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass".

What is another word for grade crossing?

Close synonyms include level crossing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grade crossing a common word?

grade crossing 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.