carfax means the junction of the High Sreet, St Aldate's, Queen Street and Cornmarket Street at the centre of Oxford.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, carfax ranks #1,039 of 20,762 for Qualifying.
carfax is pronounced /ˈkɑr.fæks/.
Etymology
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”).
name
- The junction of the High Sreet, St Aldate's, Queen Street and Cornmarket Street at the centre of Oxford.
noun
- A junction of four roads.
- The main intersection in a town.