JUMPING-OFF PLACE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched

Example:

my point of departure was San Francisco

Synonyms:

jumping-off place; point of departure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("jumping-off place" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)

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