"crossroad" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any kind of junction where two roads meet, or to a situation in someone's life when they have to make a decision. Example sentence: "At the crossroad of his life, he had to decide which path to follow."
"The Great Barrier Reef is definitely at a crossroad and decisions that will be taken over the next one, two, three years might potentially be crucial for the long-term conservation [of the reef]," said Fanny Douvere, from Unesco's World Heritage marine programme.
Standard & Poor's, a rating agency, says that California's credit, at A- already the worst among the 50 states, is "at a crossroad".
If the leads they are said to be generating continue to disappoint, there will be nothing for it but to "look under every rock, go to every crossroad, peer into every cave for evidence" (Mr Powell's description of what UNMOVIC wasn't supposed to do).Meanwhile, in an inversion of their rhetoric before the war, the governments that waged it have been massaging down expectations.
His brilliance while he waited on the crossroad was so great it reached up to heaven, and the goddess Amenouzume was sent down to inquire who he was and why he waited there.
Strashimirov was an acute observer of the contemporary social scene; one of his best stories of peasant life was "Kochalovskata kramola" (1895; "The Kochalovo Quarrel"), and he also wrote the novels Esenni dni (1902; "Autumn Days"), Krǔstopǔt (1904; "Crossroad"), and Sreshta (1908; "Meeting") and the dramas Vampir (1902) and Svekǔrva (1906; "Mother-in-Law").
A port of entry and an important foreign-trade and transcontinental crossroad on several major highways, it is served by both U.S. and Mexican railroads.
Menlo Park was established as a rural crossroad in the 17th century after the founding of the East Jersey colony in 1676.
Reports have emerged that Cahill is considering his future at Stamford Bridge after falling out-of-favour under interim manager Guus Hiddink, and the 30-year-old was said to feel he was at a crossroad in his career as he weighed up his future.
Zagreb police spokeswoman Jelena Bikic said the attack was carried out at a crossroad in Zagreb by a group of about 40 people, 11 of whom were detained and found to already be on a hooligan register.
"There is a profound sense of being at the most portentous crossroad in history," he writes in the show's catalogue.
He began his career as a travelling seed salesman, getting to know every crossroad in the Midwest.
