American English pronunciation
How to pronounce crossroads
IPA transcription: [k'ɹɔs,ɹoʊdz]
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Noun
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a community of people smaller than a village
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a junction where one street or road crosses another
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a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
“at that juncture he had no idea what to do”
“he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point”
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a point where a choice must be made
“Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology”
Usage examples
- Another suggestion was "nix" because the community was "nothing but a crossroads".
- Its location adjacent to a major crossroads made it an easy source of stone.
- Pillories were set up to hold people in marketplaces, crossroads, and other public places.
- They separate at crossroads.
- The lake is located at the crossroads of several bird migration routes across Asia.
- The terrain depicted a rural crossroads overlooked by a forested hill.
- Pipelines and storage facilities have since made it the pipeline crossroads of the world.
- Crossroads was also an early investor in secondary interests in existing private equity partnerships.
- Most of these are listed on his webpage, "Crossroads to the future".
- "Independence" was later used as a target during the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.