starting point

starting point noun: the place where a journey starts.

Noun

starting point (plural starting points)

(figuratively, sometimes) The place where a journey starts.
- King's Cross Station proved to be the starting point of a journey that took me around the world.
Synonyms:

point of departure
The first steps when commencing an activity.
- Examining the data and facts will be a good starting point.
- What Loehr called the Middle Western Chou is the probable starting point, that is, during the mid-eleventh century B.C.⁵⁸ when a breakdown in the old order of Phase I can be documented. For instance, a yu found at T'un-hsi, Anhui, (Plate 19) is decorated with intertwining birds both on the belly...1979, Katheryn McAllister Linduff, Tradition, Phase and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93
Synonyms:

point of departure

தொடக்க இடம்

the starting point or foundational sign in a horoscope from which all twelve houses are calculated: ಲಗ್ನ lagna

What Loehr called the Middle Western Chou is the probable starting point, that is, during the mid-eleventh century B.C.⁵⁸ when a breakdown in the old order of Phase I can be documented.1979, Katheryn McAllister Linduff, Tradition, Phase and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC...
The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original...

plural	starting points

What does starting point mean?: Starting point means the place where a journey starts.
What is starting point in Tamil?: Starting point in Tamil is தொடக்க இடம். See Starting point meaning in Tamil.
How do you use starting point in a sentence?: What Loehr called the Middle Western Chou is the probable starting point, that is, during the mid-eleventh century B.C.⁵⁸ when a breakdown in the old order of Phase I can be documented.
What part of speech is starting point?: Starting point is a noun.
What is the plural of starting point?: The plural of starting point is starting points.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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