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Carfax.

The junction of the High Sreet, St Aldate's, Queen Street and Cornmarket Street at the centre of Oxford.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

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  1. The junction of the High Sreet, St Aldate's, Queen Street and Cornmarket Street at the centre of Oxford.

Where this word comes from

From carfax (“a junction of four roads; the main intersection in a town”), from Middle English carfukes, an Anglicisation of Latin quadrifurcus (“four-pronged, four-forked”).

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