crossroads
- Top 10000
Sense 1
- noun
- B1
A place where two roads meet and cross one another.
Turn left at the crossroads and keep going for two kilometres.
New traffic lights were finally installed at that busy crossroads.
We stopped at a quiet crossroads to work out which road was ours.
Common collocations: at the crossroads · turn left at the crossroads · a busy crossroads · traffic lights at the crossroads
Part of: Directions
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B2
A moment when you must choose between two very different ways your life or work could go.
Our team is at a crossroads and must decide what comes next.
She reached a crossroads in her career after twenty years abroad.
Losing that contract left the small firm at a serious crossroads.
Common collocations: at a crossroads · reach a crossroads · stand at a crossroads · a crossroads in life
Part of: Attitudes and opinions, Life events
Forms
- plural
- crossroads