From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishacross/over the wayacross/over the wayon the opposite side of the street They live across the way from us at number 23. → way
Examples from the Corpus
across/over the way• Solicitors will have the same immunity as barristers from legal actions over the way they conduct cases in court.• Just across the way is the wild-looking tip of Cumberland Island, a nature refuge where wild horses trample the sands.• Carroll was puzzled over the way Protestants who had always feared priests could now demand his services.• Then I remembered my quandary over the way one looked at X-rays.• The Braves, meanwhile, sat across the way, with the air conditioning blowing in a manufactured winter.• Lots of people from the neighborhood assemble in the street, across the way, to watch.• Those across the way claimed ringside seats on wooden chairs, each sitter shielded by a thick cotton-lace curtain.• Burns will tell his board today that the Sports Council wants a non-voting member watching over the way the cash is spent. 