crossroadnoun [ C ]
/ˈkrɒs.rəʊd//ˈkrɑːs.roʊd/USa road that crosses another road
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Road junctions
- box
- box junction
- circus
- cloverleaf
- corner
- crossing
- crossroads
- fork
- interchange
- intersect
- intersection
- junction
- roundabout
- spaghetti junction
- staggered junction
- T-junction
- traffic circle
- turn-off
- turning
Examples from literature
- At every crossroad he stopped and read an order.
- Eventually we came back to the crossroad, and with a feeling of having been successful, I continued South with a confidence that I had not felt before.
- Fifty yards ahead was a crossroad.
- The street, dimly lighted by a couple of oil lamps swinging from gibbets at the corners of a crossroad, seemed to be peopled by shadows surreptitiously lurking in doorways.
- We crept out of the city, but unfortunately at one of the dangerous crossroads our chauffeur mistook the route.