ROAD TO DAMASCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does road to Damascus mean? 

• ROAD TO DAMASCUS (noun)
  The noun ROAD TO DAMASCUS has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: ROAD TO DAMASCUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROAD TO DAMASCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("road to Damascus" is a kind of...):

landmark; turning point; watershed (an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend)