carrefour
noun
car·re·four ˌker-ə-ˈfu̇r 
ˌka-rə-
1
: crossroads
2
: square, plaza
the farmers … preferred the open carrefour for their transactions
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Synonyms
- corner
- crossing
- crossroad
- crossway(s)
- intersection
- junction
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Example Sentences
our hotel in Montreal was adjacent to a noisy carrefour
Recent Examples on the Web But in carrefours all over the world, migrants talk to each other in this way, trading hope, disappointment, tenacity, pain. Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019 Youssouf, who’s been in Spain for 14 years, calls Lepe a carrefour, a crossroads. Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019 Youssouf, who’s been in Spain for 14 years, calls Lepe a carrefour, a crossroads. Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019 Word History
Etymology
Middle French, from Late Latin quadrifurcum, neuter of quadrifurcus having four forks, from Latin quadri- + furca fork
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Geographical Definition
Carrefour
geographical name
Carre·four ˌkär-ˈfu̇r
residential city west of Port-au-Prince in southern Haiti population 430,000
carrefours
noun
as in intersections
a place where roads meet our hotel in Montreal was adjacent to a noisy carrefour Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- intersections
- corners
- junctions
- crossings
- crossroads
- cloverleaves
- crossways
- traffic circles
- interchanges
- cloverleafs
- overpasses
- roundabouts
- underpasses
- rotaries
- circles
