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Crossroads

noun

A community of people smaller than a village. Synonym: hamlet.

A crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made. Synonyms: critical point, juncture. "He must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"

A point where a choice must be made.

Crossroad

noun

A junction where one street or road crosses another. Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection.

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"Crossroads" Quotes from Famous Books

... more sun.... They are coming, the little sheep. How many there are! They fear the dark! They crowd together! They cry! and they go quick! They are at the crossroads, and they know not which way to turn!... Now they are still.... Shepherd! why do ...

— Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande - A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score • Lawrence Gilman

... to approach our camp, for fear lest Fred should carry out his threat and fight. The fight would certainly be reported by the askari on watch at the crossroads, and that would destroy his chance of making believe to be in our confidence. So he kept sending notes to me when the others were absent, even the native boy who brought them—not daring to enter our camp, but fastening the message to a stone and throwing ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... Bennington Crossroads, where the Allens lived, one of the posse caught his foot in the root of a tree and fell flat ...

— The Hero of Ticonderoga - or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys • John de Morgan

... in the north the Shang population, farther east and south various other peoples and cultures. The conquerors' garrisons were like islands in a sea. Most of them formed new towns, walled, with a rectangular plan and central crossroads, similar to the European towns subsequently formed out of Roman encampments. This town plan has been ...

— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

... it over with the choir; one of whom suggested that the stone might be erected at the crossroads. This was regarded as impracticable. Another said that it might be set up in the churchyard without removing the body; but this was seen to be dishonest. So ...

— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy

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