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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crossroads
noun
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
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