Crossroads

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crossroads
       n 1: a community of people smaller than a village [syn: {hamlet}]
       2: 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" [syn: {juncture}, {critical point}]


       3: a point where a choice must be made; "Freud's work stands at
          the crossroads between psychology and neurology"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "crossroads":
     climacteric, clutch, convergence of events, country town, crisis,
     critical juncture, critical point, crucial period, crunch,
     emergency, exigency, extremity, ham, hamlet, hinge, pass, pinch,
     push, rub, strait, thorp, turn, turning point, village, wick
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Crossroads, NM
    Zip code(s): 88114