crossroads

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"

English

Noun

crossroads

1. Plural of crossroad
2. a place where roads meet; an intersection
3. In the context of "by extension": a centrally located position
4. a decisive point; a turning point

Derived terms

• at crossroads

Translations

Crossroads or Cross roads may refer to:

• Crossroads (culture), an intersection of roads. This meaning is used metaphorically as a place where other things - both physical and abstract - meet.

It can be used both with a singular and with a plural meaning, i.e. to be at a crossroads, the crossroads are...

Music

• "Cross Road Blues", by Robert Johnson, a blues song covered by many artists
• Crossroads (album) by Tracy Chapman

• Crossroads, the first single from the above album

• Cross Road, a 1994 compilation album by Bon Jovi
• Crossroads (box set) by Eric Clapton or its sequel, Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies (box set)
• Crossroads Guitar Festival, a three-day blues & rock concert arranged by Eric Clapton
• Crossroads (song) by Cream
• "Tha Crossroads", a Grammy Award winning single by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  • "Crossroads", a 2002 UK number one single from Blazin' Squad based on the above
• Crossroads (Don McLean song), from the album American Pie
• Crossroads (LL Cool song), from the album 14 Shots to the Dome
• Crossroads (Homesick James song), by Homesick James
• "Crossroads single", a single by Avenged Sevenfold
• Crossroads, a 2006 album by Belgian band Sylver

TV, radio and film

• Crossroads (TV series), a British soap opera that ran 1964-1988 and 2001-2003
• Crossroads (1955 TV series), an anthology series
• Crossroads (VH1 TV series)
• Crossroads (1928 film), Japanese film directed by Kinugasa Teinosuke, also known as Crossways and Slums of Tokyo
• Crossroads (1937 film), Chinese film starring Zhao Dan
• Crossroads (1942 film)
• Crossroads (1986 film), Starring Ralph Macchio
• Crossroads (2002 film), starring Britney Spears
• Crossroads (CMT TV series)
• Crossroads (NPR series)
• America at a Crossroads, a PBS series about radical Islam and the second Gulf War
• Crossroads (Band of Brothers), the fifth part of HBO's Band of Brothers miniseries
• Crossroads (Jericho episode), an episode of the CBS drama Jericho
• Crossroads (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
• Crossroads (Battlestar Galactica), an episode of Battlestar Galactica
• Crossroad Blues (Supernatural), an episode of the show Supernatural

Place names

United States

Communities

• Cross Roads, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Delaware County
• Crossroads, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Stone County
• Cross Roads, Pennsylvania, a borough in York County
• Cross Roads, Texas, a very small town in Denton County
• Crossroads, Bellevue, Washington, a neighborhood
• Surry, Virginia, former name "Cross Roads"

Crossroads, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Pearl River County

Nicknames

• Crossroads of America, an unofficial nickname for Indiana

Shopping malls

• Crossroads Center, a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota
• Crossroads Center (Waterloo, IA), a shopping mall in Waterloo, Iowa
• Crossroads Mall (Boulder), a former shopping mall in Boulder, Colorado
• Crossroads Mall (Florida), a former shopping mall in the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida Bay Area
• Crossroads Mall (Omaha), a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska
• Crossroads Mall (Oklahoma), a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Crossroads Plaza, a shopping district in Cary, North Carolina, near Raleigh
• The Crossroads (Michigan), a shopping mall in Portage, Michigan

Outside the United States

• Cross Roads, a mixed use residential / commercial development in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Crossroads Centre, an addiction rehabilitation facility on Antigua in Antigua and Barbuda
• Crossroads Mall (Mumbai), the first shopping mall in Mumbai, India — possibly the first such mall in India
• Cross Roads, West Yorkshire
• Cross Roads, County Donegal (Falcarragh)

Other uses

• Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
• Crossroad (manga), a seven volume manga series
• Crossroads (game), a chaotic shooter video game for the Commodore 64
• Crossroads (comics), a five issue limited series from First Comics
• Crossroads Movement, which gave rise to the International Churches of Christ
• Crossroads village, a settlement situated at a crossroads
• Cross Roads meteorite of 1892, which fell in North Carolina, United States (see meteorite falls)
• Carrefour (English: Crossroads), an international supermarket chain founded in France

See also

• Burial at cross-roads, a place where executed criminals and suicides were traditionally buried
• Crossroads School (disambiguation)
• Fork in the road (disambiguation)

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