| NOUN | event | turning point, landmark, watershed | an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend |
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| artifact | turning point, corner, street corner | the intersection of two streets |
| Meaning | An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend. | |
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| Synonyms | landmark, watershed | |
| Narrower | 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) | |
| Broader | juncture, occasion | An event that occurs at a critical time |
| Spanish | punto de inflexión, sobresaliente | |
| Catalan | moment decisiu | |
| Meaning | The intersection of two streets. | |
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| Synonyms | corner, street corner | |
| Narrower | blind corner | A street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving |
| Broader | intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour | A junction where one street or road crosses another |
| Spanish | chaflán, esquina de calle, esquina | |
| Catalan | cantonada, xamfrà | |
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