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say it: KRAWS-rohdz
crossroads is a noun meaning "a community of people smaller than a village". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
a point where a choice must be made
“Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crossroads come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.