Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A crossroads.
- n. A public square; a plaza.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a junction where one street or road crosses another
Etymologies
- French, from Old French carrefor, from Latin quadrifurcus, four-forked : quadri-, quadri- + furca, fork. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The site is, in one point at least, admirably well-chosen, a kind of carrefour where four valleys and as many roads meet; and thus it commands the mouths of all the gorges leading inland.”
“And they serve wonderful natural wines. 9, carrefour de l'Od é on, 6th, 33-8-2610-1087”
“There's a house in carrefour that has about 200 people staying there with no food and no drinks.....it's a big yard so the survivor are camping there its COTE PLAGE 22# 33....please HELP!”
“January 20th, 2010 12:57 am ET got about 100 people starving to death in bertin, carrefour area any ideas on how to get food to them?”
“January 17th, 2010 7:42 pm ET i'm trying to locate my only brother Mario Lolo that i love so much he lived @carrefour, please if someone know him tell him to call me to let me know that he is Ok and his family.”
“I saw it on sale in Dubai three months ago at carrefour Stores for merely about Can$ 150.”
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“I don't understand the Hebrew, but it is clear that this group of 'peaceniks' are trying to empty a carrefour of Israeli products... posted by GayandRight @ 1:15 PM”
“La crise que nous traversons est singulière car elle se situe au carrefour de trois dimensions: l'économique, le social et l'écologique ou les 3 axes du développement durable.”
“Losfeld, the author of Au carrefour has deliberately omitted the more explicit scenes and urges to write him if you want to see more.”
“Introducing “Au carrefour étrange” « Jahsonic”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carrefour’.
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, portico, porch, stoop, strand, liminal, limen and 304 more...
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Rexicon
brazen, insipid, cuss, penchant, salacious, titillate, lurid, schlemiel, interlope, masquerade, supercilious, action-taking and 51 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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freerice words to learn
because the website is just that awesome.
allocution, embolism, napery, hemidemisemiquaver, bestir, moppet, ampoule, pullet, praenomen, philately, hauberk, ratiocination and 40 more...
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wonderful words
metaverse, lapidary, abstruse, rubicon, meme, toponym, bloviate, epistolary, topophilia, frowzy, boniface, fetter and 5 more...
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poetche's list
carrefour, zeitgeist, hegemony, brouhaha, folderol, penultimate, obnubilate
Tweets
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chained_bear Yes. I've never heard it used in conversation either.
According to the OED:
Obsolete
A place where four ways meet, a ‘carfax’. (Formerly quite naturalized, but now treated only as French.)
1477 CAXTON Jason 28 In alle the quarefours of the cyte. 1490 Eneydos xxvii. 100 By the grete quarfours and by wayes. 1502 Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) V. ii. 362 In a quarefoure of a towne. 1600 HOLLAND Livy XXVII. iv. 628 Neere unto the carrefour or crosse waie compitum of Anagnia. Ibid. XXXVIII. xxxvi. 1005 In all quarrefours or crosse streets of the citie. 1601 Pliny I. 59 Rome..containeth..265 crosse streets or carfours. 1652 EVELYN State France Misc. (1805) 93 You walk the Streets and public Carfours. c1730 BURT Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) I. 22 It Glasgow has a spacious carrifour, where stands the cross. a1734 NORTH Exam. III. vii. 86. 572 Their Seat was in a Sort of Carfour at Chancery-Lane End. May 26, 2009
milosrdenstvi I expect it's French? May 25, 2009
pterodactyl I agree with rolig. I'm a native English speaker, and I've never heard this word before. May 25, 2009
valse Reminds me of Carrefour the French hypermarket May 24, 2009
rolig @ Poetche - it's the right use if you don't want people to know where you live. Otherwise, intersection would probably be the more effective choice. May 24, 2009
jamalulo This word reminds me of going to Five Points nursery in Wilton Manors, FL with my dear mother in the 1970s. May 24, 2009
poetche I live near the carrefour of Commercial and Federal. Is that the right use of the word? May 24, 2009