Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jumping-off_place

1 sense of jumping-off place

Sense 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")
       => beginning, origin, root, rootage, source -- (the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root")