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turning point

DEFINITIONS OF: turning point

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n an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend

Synonyms:
landmark, watershed
Types:
Fall of Man
(Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death
road to Damascus
a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians)
Type of:
juncture, occasion
an event that occurs at a critical time

n the intersection of two streets

Synonyms:
corner, street corner
Types:
blind corner
a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving
Type of:
carrefour, crossing, crossroad, crossway, intersection
a junction where one street or road crosses another
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