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 -- (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")

Sense 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")
       => beginning, start, commencement -- (the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations")