as in intersection
a place where roads meet
our hotel in Montreal was adjacent to a noisy carrefour
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Recent Examples of carrefour
Youssouf, who’s been in Spain for 14 years, calls Lepe a carrefour, a crossroads.
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Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carrefour
Noun
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The chase ended at West Raymond and South Harding streets after the Buick struck a semitruck that was turning through the intersection, according to police.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
24 Oct. 2025
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He was known to save everything and stood at the intersection of some pivotal moments in football history.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Arsenal remain elite from corners and free kicks, while showing signs of improvement in open-play creativity.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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In one corner of an upper floor of the Commons on the Universal Lot a coffee counter has been erected that looks like the café where Carey Mulligan’s character works in Emerald Fennel’s Promising Young Woman, and baristas hand out espresso and drip coffees.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Each junction behaves slightly differently, forming a complex 3D network that is impossible to exactly replicate.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
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Canal supporters identified the break in the Appalachian Mountains at the junction of the Mohawk River and the Hudson as a propitious place to dig a channel to Lake Erie.—
Christine Keiner,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Carrefour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carrefour. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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