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 U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Crossroads, NM
  Zip code(s): 88114
    
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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