Definitions for jumping-off-place

jumping-off-place jumping-off place

Spelling: [juhm-ping-awf, -of]
IPA: /ˈdʒʌm pɪŋˈɔf, -ˈɒf/

Jumping-Off-Place is a 17 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 1731 anagrams from letters in jumping-off-place (--aceffgijlmnoppu).

Definitions for jumping-off-place

noun

  1. a place for use as a starting point:
  2. an out-of-the-way place; the farthest limit of anything settled or civilized.

Origin of jumping-off-place

An Americanism dating back to 1820-30

Examples for jumping-off-place

Surely he had not waited, shivering and hesitating, at the jumping-off place.

Neither knowing the name of the other, they next met at this jumping-off place.

So you're Hilgarde's brother, and here I've run into you at the jumping-off place.

I suppose the Foreign Office will help me to get to the jumping-off place?'

Before long we arrived at what may be called the "jumping-off place."

He had been mighty near the jumping-off place that time, sure.

To some of them indeed Khartoum is only a jumping-off place.

He had come to a jumping-off place in his life—why had they not let him jump?

"This is the jumping-off place," cried Marion, as they came in sight of the water.

“But there is a jumping-off place at the bottom,” objected Margery.

Word Value for jumping-off-place
Scrable

19

Words with friends

26

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