pedestrian crossing vs crossing

crossing vs pedestrian crossing

pedestrian crossing and crossing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pedestrian crossing	Yes	No	No	No
crossing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, crossing is a hypernym of pedestrian crossing; that is, crossing is a word with a broader meaning than pedestrian crossing:

pedestrian crossing: street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes)
crossing: a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other

Other hypernyms of pedestrian crossing include crossover, crosswalk.

pedestrian crossing (noun)	crossing (noun)
street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes)	a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
	traveling across
	(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
	a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
	a junction where one street or road crosses another
	a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
	a shallow area in a stream that can be forded

Difference between pedestrian crossing and crossing

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