crossroads
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
crossroads
n 1: a community of people smaller than a village [syn:
{hamlet}, {crossroads}]
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},
{crossroads}]
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
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
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