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Noun crossroad has 3 senses
- intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour - a junction where one street or road crosses another
--1 is a kind of community; junction; community; junction
--1 is a part of road, route
--1 has particulars: | | corner, street corner, turning point; level crossing, grade crossing; intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour; corner, street corner, turning point; level crossing, grade crossing |
- juncture, critical point, crossroads - 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"
--2 is a kind of crisis; crisis
--2 has particulars:
- crossroads - a point where a choice must be made; "Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology"
--3 is a kind of overlap, convergence, intersection; overlap, convergence, intersection
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