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Crossroads   /krˈɔsrˌoʊdz/   Listen
Crossroads

noun
1.
A community of people smaller than a village.  Synonym: hamlet.
2.
A crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made.  Synonyms: critical point, juncture.  "He must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"
3.
A point where a choice must be made.


Crossroad

noun
1.
A junction where one street or road crosses another.  Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection.





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"Crossroads" Quotes from Famous Books



... his head up, searching for the eager face of Steve Kennedy, late his sergeant. Halfway up the next block he found him pausing to roll a cigarette. Steve was a scant five feet, and he was telling a private who was a scant six feet that there would be dirty work at the crossroads—when the fur-faces started. ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... brakeman saw me coming and waved to the engineer not to start until my trunk was checked and safely boarded like myself. Then we bumped our way through meadows quickened to life by the soft spring air; we halted at crossroads to pick up stray travelers and shoppers; we unloaded plowing machines and shipped crates of live fowl; we waited at wayside stations with high-sounding names for family parties whose unpunctuality was indulgently considered by the occupants ...
— The Woman Who Toils - Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls • Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst
... so many changes in Government programs under consideration—and with our very philosophy about the relationship between the individual and the State at an historic crossroads—a single, all-embracing State of the Union Message would not appear ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... was early at the crossroads but although she waited for several hours neither Mary nor any of her ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... at the crossroads of central Europe with many easily traversable Alpine passes and valleys; major river is the Danube; population is concentrated on eastern lowlands because of steep slopes, poor ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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