crossroads vs community

crossroads and community both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
crossroads	Yes	No	No	No
community	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, community is a hypernym of crossroads; that is, community is a word with a broader meaning than crossroads:

crossroads (noun)	community (noun)
a point where a choice must be made	a group of people living in a particular local area
a community of people smaller than a village	(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made	a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common
	a group of nations having common interests
	a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
	common ownership
	agreement as to goals