carrefour

noun

ˌker-ə-ˈfu̇r How to pronounce carrefour (audio)
Definition of carrefournext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carrefour
  1. intersection
  2. corner
  3. junction
Noun
  • Near a busy intersection in Shawnee, a red, white and blue sign juts out in front of a two-story home with a white picket fence.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
  • Bystander video filmed from a nearby car shows officers on the ground at an intersection, struggling with a man who is then pulled up to his feet.
    — Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
Definition of intersection
Noun
  • That convergence is drawing together businesses that once occupied separate corners of the market, from consumer staples companies selling food to biotech firms developing medicines and veterinary providers offering increasingly sophisticated care.
    — Elsa Ohlen,Carolin Roth, CNBC, 18 July 2026
  • Tickets in the corners of the upper deck were listed for nearly $10,000.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
Definition of corner
Noun
  • To maximize efficiency, a complex triple-junction solar cell was made by stacking three perovskite absorbers with varying band gaps.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026
  • The work still got done, but a person stood at every junction—checking, clicking and reconciling.
    — Rahul Bhatia, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of junction

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