A crossroads is a place where two roads meet and cross each other.
Turn right at the first crossroads.
2. singular noun [oft at aN]
If you say that something is at acrossroads, 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.
3. singular noun [usually with supplement]
A crossroads is an important or central place.
[mainly US]
...Mulberry, a small town at the crossroads of agriculture in central Florida.
crossroads in British English
(ˈkrɒsˌrəʊdz)
noun(functioning as singular)
1.
an area or the point at which two or more roads cross each other
2.
the point at which an important choice has to be made (esp in the phrase at the crossroads)
Examples of 'crossroads' in a sentence
crossroads
As they wound their way away from Steeple Fritton and towards the Lesser Fritton crossroads, there had been few mishaps.
Christina Jones TICKLED PINK (2001)
The second truck drew alongside the first and they both moved over the crossroads.
Robert Wilson INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (2001)
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British English: crossroads /ˈkrɒsˌrəʊdz/ NOUN
A crossroads is a place where two roads meet and cross.