crossroads

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a point where a choice must be made

   Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology

2. 2
   noun

   A place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads.

   Near-synonym: intersection

3. 3
   noun

   A centrally located position.

   The shiny wet black triangle at the crossroads of where her legs split.

4. 4
   noun

   A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.

   Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.

5. 5
   noun

   A fork in the road.

   But first he stopped his car at the crossroads where the highway forked off to Gastmann's house.

6. 6
   noun

   a community of people smaller than a village

7. 7
   noun

   a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made

8. 8
   noun

   plural of crossroad