Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   juncture

   /ˈdʒʌŋ(k)tʃə/

   noun

   • 1. a particular point in events or time: "it is difficult to say at this juncture whether this upturn can be sustained" Similar pointpoint in timetimemomentmoment in timestageperiodphase
   • 2. a place where things join: "the plane crashed at the juncture of two mountains" Similar confluenceconvergencemeetingmeeting pointconfluxjunctionwatersmeetsangam
   • 3. the set of features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a word or phrase boundary (e.g. distinguishing I scream from ice cream).

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘act of joining’): from Latin junctura, ‘joint’, from jungere ‘to join’.

   Scrabble Points: 17

   • J

     8

   • U

     1

   • N

     1

   • C

     3

   • T

     1

   • U

     1

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points