Search Result for "jumping-off_place":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched;
- Example: "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"
- Example: "my point of departure was San Francisco"
[syn: jumping-off place, point of departure]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

jumping-off place
    n 1: a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched;
         "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I
         decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure
         was San Francisco" [syn: jumping-off place, point of
         departure]