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1. A community of people smaller than a village
   - hamlet
    
2. A crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
   "at that crossroads he had no idea what to do";
   - juncture, critical point, climacteric
    
3. A point where a choice must be made
   "Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology"

1. A junction where one street or road crosses another
   - intersection, crossway [N. Amer], crossing, carrefour

Type of: community, convergence, crisis, intersection, junction, overlap

Part of: road, route

Encyclopedia: Crossroads, Part 2