across the country
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1.7
- idiom
:
por todo el país
- They drove across the country to attend the family reunion.
- travel across the country
- take across the country
It didn't move any further up the coast or across the country.
- It didn't move any further up the coast or across the country.
- I mean, he was confident enough to go clear across the country.
- I spent almost seven weeks hitchhiking across the country.
- But because of the matinee, this listener was able to fly from Atlanta across the country.
- And I was I was driving across the country and back to New York, taking the southern route.
- But Soulja Boy, we're going across the country and his album just came out number one album in the world.
- But to move everything across the country to LA, which everything's like twice the price, if not quadruple.
- She just moved across the country to live with him in his house that he just bought and he has a female best friend.
- Some years ago I was driving across the country with some friends and we found ourselves in the middle of nowhere in Hammond, IN.
- I come here, fly across the country and fly back for one reason, to put so much pressure on this room to do the homework.
- So all these truck drivers, you know, who are in going across the country and all this stuff, they don't need you.
- He's like a New York based guy, Jason Romero, who's another guy who's run across the country talked to.
- And I could be with her and at the same exact time be like accused of being across the country doing something nefarious.
- Really, it was, I'm not going to call it the opposite of my experience that I had just done going across the country.
Examples
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Do you want to drive across the country with me?
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So we're also moving across the country from Iowa to Portland, OR.
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And I was I was driving across the country and back to New York, taking the southern route.
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We travel across the country.
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We're driving across the country, and the last thing we need is bad luck.
Fiction book (1994) -
Over the past decade, schools across the country have developed mission statements.
Academic text (1993) -
In addition to its Washington programs, Close Up sponsors government studies programs in communities across the country.
Academic text (1993) -
We were traveling west in a covered wagon across the country.
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We actually had to go all the way across the country to the largest freeze drying factory in the world.
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Debra's parents divorced when she was three; her mother moved her across the country, away from her father.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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2.6
All over the country
How Far
Surface Forms
Morphology
across + the + country
The meaning is directly compositional: 'across' conveys movement from one side to the other and 'country' names the geographical area, with 'the' as a definite article that does not alter semantics. This straightforward spatial composition is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Across the country gives the picture of a journey that goes from one side of the nation to the other, with across showing the direction and the country the area traveled. That's why it means 'to travel from one side of a country to the other'.