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A pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pedestrian crossing
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: crossing, crosswalk, crossover
Narrower terms: pelican crossing, school crossing
zebra + crossing From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.
Across languages
Translations
59 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مَمَرُّ الرَّاجِلِين
(mamarru r-rājilīn)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Armenian:
անցում
(ancʻum)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Armenian:
զեբր
(zebr)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Catalan:
pas zebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Catalan:
pas de zebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Chinese Cantonese:
斑馬線 /斑马线
(baan1 maa5 sin3)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Chinese:
斑馬線 /斑马线
(zh-min-nan)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Chinese Mandarin:
斑馬線 /斑马线
(bānmǎxiàn)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Cornish:
treusva labol
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Czech:
zebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Czech:
přechod pro chodce
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Danish:
fodgængerovergang
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Danish:
fodgængerfelt
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Dutch:
zebrapad
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Esperanto:
stripasejo
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Esperanto:
zebrostria pasejo
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Finnish:
suojatie
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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French:
passage pour piétons
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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French:
passage piéton
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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French:
passage clouté
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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German:
Zebrastreifen
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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German:
Fußgängerüberweg
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Hungarian:
zebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Icelandic:
sebrabraut
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Indonesian:
zebra cross
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Irish:
trasrian síogach
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Irish:
bealach trasna
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Italian:
strisce pedonali
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Italian:
attraversamento zebrato
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Japanese:
横断歩道
(ōdan hodō)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Kazakh:
жаяу өткел
(jaäu ötkel)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Korean:
횡단보도
(hoengdanbodo)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Luxembourgish:
Zebrasträif
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Malay:
lintasan zebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Norwegian Bokmål:
fotgjengerfelt
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Norwegian Bokmål:
fotgjengerovergang
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Norwegian Bokmål:
gangfelt
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
gangfelt
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Polish:
zebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Portuguese:
passadeira
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Portuguese:
zebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Portuguese:
faixa de pedestres
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Portuguese:
faixa
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Romanian:
trecere de pietoni
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Romanian:
zebră
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Russian:
пешехо́дный перехо́д
(pešexódnyj perexód)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Russian:
полоса́тый перехо́д
(polosátyj perexód)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Russian:
зе́бра
(zébra)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Russian:
зе́бра перехо́д
(zébra perexód)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Slovak:
zebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Slovak:
priechod pre chodcov
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Spanish:
paso de cebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Spanish:
cebra peatonal
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Spanish:
cebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Swahili:
kivuko milia
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Swedish:
övergångsställe
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Thai:
ทางม้าลาย
(taang máa laai)
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Turkish:
yaya geçidi
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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Welsh:
croesfan sebra
— pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes