turning point

noun

: a point at which a significant change occurs

Synonyms

• climacteric
• climax
• corner
• landmark
• milepost
• milestone
• watershed

Examples of turning point in a Sentence

Winning that game was the turning point of the team's season.

That job was a major turning point in her career.

Recent Examples on the Web

An eternal flame that began burning in Paris more than 100 years ago made its way to the U.S. in honor of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that became a major turning point during World War II. —Fox News, 7 June 2024

But if the special marks a turning point in Tomlinson’s life, so does her new day job. —Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024

The essay’s emergence as the canonical case for Trumpism marked a turning point: the moment when the conservative movement gave into its worst impulses, willing to embrace the most radical forms of politics in the name of stopping social change. —Vox Staff, Vox, 3 June 2024

But in a 2020 review, Mr. Wells identified the 2013 opening of Sushi Nakazawa, in New York City, as a turning point in American omakase. —Brett Anderson, New York Times, 21 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1777, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

turning point

noun

: a point (as in an action or situation) where an important change occurs