ADJ
busy | dangerous | motorway, road | railway
PREP
at a/the ~
We missed our exit and had to turn around at the junction.
~ with
There's a petrol station at the junction with the main highway where we always stop for coffee.
noun
The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
Turn left at the next road junction.
A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
The two rail lines meet at a major junction.
In the mid-1930s, when Stalin was looking to make a statement with his new Metro, he consulted Underground engineers, who offered advice to the Russian Minister in charge of the Metro project, Nikita Khrushchev. He was severely told: 'Don't have a Circle Line - too many flat junctions.' Moscow did build a circle line, but with flying junctions, by which one track goes over another.
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
verb
To form a junction.
critical junction
symbolic junction
name
A village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.
A city, the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States.
A small town, the county seat of Piute County, Utah, United States.
An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
noun — an act of joining or adjoining things
noun — something that joins or connects
noun — the shape or manner in which things come together and a conn
noun — the state of being joined together
Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
WiktionaryTurn left at the next road junction.
WiktionaryThe two rail lines meet at a major junction.
Wiktionarycritical junction
Wiktionarysymbolic junction
WiktionaryThe company is at a critical junction in its development.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, junction is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.