junction
noun /ˈdʒʌŋkʃn/
/ˈdʒʌŋkʃn/
- (especially British English)(North American English usually intersection)the place where two or more roads or railway lines meet
- It was near the junction of City Road and Old Street.
- Come off the motorway at junction 6.
- The most complicated motorway interchange in Britain is known as Spaghetti Junction.
- In the 19th century the town became an important railway junction.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- busy
- dangerous
- motorway
- …
- at a/the junction
- junction with
- a place where two or more cables, rivers or other things meet or are joined
- a telephone junction box
- the junction between nerves and muscles
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- busy
- dangerous
- motorway
- …
- at a/the junction
- junction with
Word Originearly 18th cent. (originally meaning the action or fact of being joined): from Latin junctio(n-), from jungere ‘to join’.