Noun: crossroads 'krós,rowdz
- 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
- A point where a choice must be made
"Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology"
- A community of people smaller than a village
"The crossroads was little more than a general store and a gas station";
- hamlet
- A junction where one street or road crosses another
"They agreed to meet at the crossroad near the old church";
- intersection, crossway [N. Amer], crossing, carrefour
Type of: community, convergence, crisis, intersection, junction, overlap
Encyclopedia: Crossroads, Part 2
Crossroad, Arkansas