Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - crossroads

(crossroads) 1. A crossroads is a place where two roads meet and cross each other. Turn right at the first crossroads. N-COUNT 2. If you say that something is at a crossroads, you mean that it has reached a very important stage in its development where it could go one way or another. The company was clearly at a crossroads... N-SING: oft at a N