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point of departure
Overview of noun point-of-departure
The noun point of departure has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. jumping-off place, point of departure -- (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")
2. springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure -- (a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun point-of-departure
2 senses of point of departure
Sense 1
jumping-off place, point of departure
=> beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
=> point
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure
=> beginning, start, commencement
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun point-of-departure
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun point-of-departure
2 senses of point of departure
Sense 1
jumping-off place, point of departure
=> beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
Sense 2
springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure
=> beginning, start, commencement
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Attributes of noun point-of-departure
Derived Forms of noun point-of-departure
Domain of noun point-of-departure
Domain Terms of noun point-of-departure
Familiarity of noun point-of-departure
point of departure used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun point-of-departure
2 senses of point of departure
Sense 1
jumping-off place, point of departure
> beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
=> derivation
=> spring
=> fountainhead, headspring, head
=> headwaters
=> wellhead, wellspring
=> jumping-off place, point of departure
=> birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience
=> home
=> point source
=> trail head, trailhead
Sense 2
springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure
> beginning, start, commencement
=> springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure
=> activation
=> attack, tone-beginning
=> constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation
HAS INSTANCE=> Creation
=> introduction, debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling, entry
=> face-off
=> first step, initiative, opening move, opening
=> groundbreaking, groundbreaking ceremony
=> housing start
=> icebreaker
=> inauguration, startup
=> initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration
=> installation, installing, installment, instalment
=> jump ball
=> kickoff
=> resumption, recommencement
=> scrum, scrummage
=> startup
Meronyms of noun point-of-departure
2 senses of point of departure
Holonyms of noun point-of-departure
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