crossroads

Noun crossroads has 3 senses

• crossroads(n = noun.group) hamlet - a community of people smaller than a village;
is a kind of community

• crossroads(n = noun.state) critical point, juncture - 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"
is a kind of crisis
has particulars: criticality

• crossroads(n = noun.cognition) - a point where a choice must be made; "Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology"
is a kind of convergence, intersection, overlap

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