zebra crossing vs crossing

crossing vs zebra crossing

zebra crossing and crossing both are nouns.

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

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

zebra 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 zebra crossing include crossover, crosswalk.

zebra 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 zebra crossing and crossing

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