intersection

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Road junctions
box
box junction
circus
cloverleaf
corner
crossing
crossroads
fork
hamburger
interchange
intersection
junction
mini-roundabout
on the corner
spaghetti junction
T-junction
throughabout
traffic circle
turn off (something)
turning

Examples from literature

At every crossroad he stopped and read an order. 
Eventually we came back to the crossroad, and with a feeling of having been successful, I continued South with a confidence that I had not felt before. 
Fifty yards ahead was a crossroad. 
The street, dimly lighted by a couple of oil lamps swinging from gibbets at the corners of a crossroad, seemed to be peopled by shadows surreptitiously lurking in doorways. 
We crept out of the city, but unfortunately at one of the dangerous crossroads our chauffeur mistook the route. 

Examples of crossroad

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In autumn, the air movement is even better at the crossroad inside the market than in the exterior streets.
As a similar mediating device, the railroad topic forms an interesting parallel to the crossroads mythology in the blues.
One of these songs particularly captures the association of the railroad with crossroads mythology by invoking the dilemma of decision-making.
The township was famous for its horse fair and was situated at an important crossroads.
It situates his once-famous depiction of savage politics as a premonitory rejection of the state at the crossroads of several traditions, long- and short-term.
This double property (global and local) is in fact an important crossroads of knowledge flows in dialogue modelling.
The crossroads at once symbolises freedom of movement, travel, and self-determination; the dilemma of the crossroads is that one must choose which path to follow.
The transcriptions that we present are situated at the crossroads between analysis and creation.
Language teacher education courses represent a crossroads of cultures as participants increasingly move about the world.
However, at the current moment, attachment work is again at a crossroads.
Yet the country stands at a crossroads, for the falling birthrate means it faces an unprecedented situation in the ratio of old to young.
The idea of human rights stands at a crossroads.
Research into psychosocial risk mechanisms is at a crossroads.
As music soars above the temporal crossroads, it enables people to come together and reach better understandings of one another despite their political differences.
In blues texts, the crossroads trope, like artistic and literary border crossings, represents mediation between dualities.
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