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. Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
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Noun
  • To commemorate his legacy, city and community leaders gathered on Thursday — on what would have been his 85th birthday — to install an honorary street sign at the intersection of Tooley Street and Oriole Street in Encanto.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The design channels the energy of his music and the spirit of his community, creating a bold intersection of performance footwear and global culture, Salomon noted.
    Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Located on the 14th floor of 1010 Park Avenue, the 3,881-square-foot penthouse-esque apartment wraps three corners with open city views through 19 floor-to-ceiling windows that amplify the sense of light and space.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This hutch can wear many hats—coffee bar, cocktail corner, matcha station.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Damage can also flare into tricky parts of the muscle, either below the tendon or towards the T-junction (the bottom of the hamstring), and physios say these are the most challenging.
    Gregg Evans, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • And in West Virginia’s capital of Charleston, where about 50,000 people live at the junction of two rivers in a wide and flat valley, a single storm could potentially flood five of the city’s six hospitals at once, along with schools, churches, fire departments, and other facilities.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Carrefour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carrefour. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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