crossroads vs overlap

crossroads and overlap both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of crossroads include convergence, intersection.

crossroads (noun)	overlap (noun)
a point where a choice must be made	a flap that lies over another part
a community of people smaller than a village	the property of partial coincidence in time
a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made	a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena

crossroads (verb)	overlap (verb)
	extend over and cover a part of
	coincide partially or wholly