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- Dictionarycrossroads/ˈkrɒsrəʊdz/
noun
- 1. an intersection of two or more roads: "Donna accelerated, seeing a crossroads ahead"
- 2. a point at which a crucial decision must be made which will have far-reaching consequences: "by 1998 I was at the crossroads"
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crossroads | American Dictionary. noun [ C ] us / ˈkrɔsˌroʊdz / plural crossroads. Add to word list. a place where two roads meet and cross each other: fig. With funding coming up for review, the program is at a crossroads (= has reached an important but uncertain stage).
: a crucial point especially where a decision must be made. Synonyms. carrefour. corner. crossing. crossway (s) intersection. junction. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of crossroad in a Sentence. Traffic was stopped at the crossroad. We turned onto a crossroad.
a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made. synonyms: critical point, juncture. see more. noun. a point where a choice must be made. “Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology”. see more. noun. a community of people smaller than a village.
If you say that something is at a crossroads, you mean that it has reached a very important stage in its development where it could go one way or another. The company was clearly at a crossroads. They had reached a crossroads in their relationship.
Crossroad definition: a road that crosses another road, or one that runs transversely to main roads.. See examples of CROSSROAD used in a sentence.
Definition of crossroads noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun [ C ] US us / ˈkrɑːs.roʊd / uk / ˈkrɒs.rəʊd / Add to word list. a road that crosses another road. Synonyms. crossing. intersection. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Road junctions. box junction. circus. cloverleaf. corner. crossing. crossroads. daylighting. fork. intersection. junction. mini-roundabout. on the corner. roundabout.