crossroad / crossing / intersection

[Saki6]

Please take a look at this photo.

What do you usually call the place where two or more streets meet or cross each other?

 

[andrewg927]

I definitely call it an intersection.

 

[Saki6]

What does a crossing and a crossroad look like to you? Could you find some pics of them on the Internet?

 

[andrewg927]

You can go to Google Image and type in "crossing" or "crossroads". I found a bunch of images but I don't know how to embed them in here.

 

[SoothingDave]

When one thinks of "crossroads" it is usually a remote, desolate location.

 

[emsr2d2]

Not in BrE, it isn't. A crossroads is anywhere where four roads meet in the middle. There's a crossroads 500 yards from my house, in a busy suburb of a city.

There are traffic lights and a pedestrian crossing on each road at that crossroads. If there weren't, no one would ever get anywhere (drivers or pedestrians!)

 

[GoesStation]

Not in BrE, it isn't. A crossroads is anywhere where four roads meet in the middle. There's a crossroads 500 yards from my house, in a busy suburb of a city.

There are traffic lights and a pedestrian crossing on each road at that crossroads. If there weren't, no one would ever get anywhere (drivers or pedestrians!)

I've been stuck at seemingly very remote crossroads in England to which that description would apply. :-(

 

[andrewg927]

When one thinks of "crossroads" it is usually a remote, desolate location.

In AE, think country, dirt roads, etc.

 

[andrewg927]

But you also use "crossroads" to mean remote locations as well, right?