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Synonyms for crossroads

Synonyms for crossroads: junction and juncture. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for crossroads

Interchangeable with crossroads in this sense

Audited under crossroads's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one crossroads carries in that sense.

junctionnoun, in the sense "a point where two or more roads meet"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name crossroads as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

juncturejuncture is a noun in the sense "a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made"

one of these comes from crossroads's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsPlaces

a point where two or more roads meet

The town grew up at a crossroads of two trade routes.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

junction

Same sentence, swapped: The town grew up at a junction of two trade routes.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for crossroads in the sentence quoted.

boulevard
thoroughfare
route

Where crossroads turns up in the game

crossroads is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play crossroads

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so crossroads reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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The ring widens as it goes, from places at Foothills outward to the whole bank.

settingnounbackgroundthe state of the environment in which a situation existsFoothills2 senses sourcenounbeginningthe place where something begins, where it springs into beingFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line spotnounplacea point located with respect to surface features of some regionFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line sprawlverbspreadto spread out over a large area in a loose, irregular wayFoothillsHas a reason line birthplacenouncradlewhere something originated or was nurtured in its early existenceRidgelineHas a reason line borderverbadjointo share a boundary with; to be adjacent toTreelineHas a reason line brownounhilltopthe peak of a hillRidgelineHas a reason line shootingnounshotthe act of firing a projectileFoothillsHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. crossroads carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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