Definition of Jumping-off place

1. Noun. A place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched. "My point of departure was San Francisco"

Exact synonyms: Point Of Departure
Generic synonyms: Beginning, Origin, Root, Rootage, Source

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumping-off Place

jumper cables
jumper disease of Maine
jumper lead
jumpered
jumperless
jumperlike
jumpers
jumpeth
jumpier
jumpiest
jumpily
jumpiness
jumpinesses
jumping
jumping-jack
jumping-off place (current term)
jumping-off point
jumping Jehoshaphat
jumping Jesus
jumping bean
jumping beans
jumping bristletail
jumping disease
jumping down someone's throat
jumping gene
jumping jack
jumping jacks
jumping mouse
jumping one's bones
jumping orchid

Literary usage of Jumping-off place

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1857 Away down upon the Atlantic coast, nearly at the jumping- off-place of this ... 1861 Brunswick, Maine, almost the jumping-off place of Down- East. ..."

2. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"... jumping-off place"—Unprecedented Descent—Comparison of the Dangers ot a Fox Chase with such driving—Description of the Mormon Canon—Mormon Lime-burners. ..."

3. Across the Rocky Mountains, from New York to California: With a Visit to the by William Kelly (1852)
"... Animals—Distant View of the Mountains of the Salt Lake Valley—Romantic Scenery—Reflections—" The jumping-off place "—Unprecedented Descent— Comparison ..."

4. The United States Navy in the World War: Official Pictures Selected from the by James Clayton Russell, William Emmet Moore (1921)
"The bottom of the 'anchor' has four wheels, on which it run« along the little railroad track on the launching deck to the jumping off place at the stern. ..."

5. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1902)
"In the Chatham Islands the ‘jumping-off place ‘ is on time ... It is probable that in each group the “jumping-off place” is approximately on that side from ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Jumping-off place on Dictionary.com!Search for Jumping-off place on Thesaurus.com!Search for Jumping-off place on Google!Search for Jumping-off place on Wikipedia!

Search