Meanings
plural junctures
- A place where things join, a junction.
Synonyms: combination, composite, conjunction, fusion, junction, melding, merger, unification
- A critical moment in time.
We're at a crucial juncture in our relationship.
2 more examples
What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! a clodhopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLCThe object is to keep the yard operators apprised of main-line movements, so that they do not plan to occupy the main lines with activity into or out of the yard at an inopportune juncture.
1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 170Synonyms: point in time, sith, instant, minute, moment, occasion, point in time, sith
- human sciencesThe manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA place where things join, a junction.
nounA critical moment in time.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
nounthe shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latiniūnctūra
- Middle Englishjuncture
- Englishjuncture
Inherited from Middle English juncture, from Latin iūnctūra. Doublet of jointure.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic وُصْل, فُتْرَة حَاسِمَة
- وُصْل (wuṣl)junction
- فُتْرَة حَاسِمَة (futra ḥāsima)critical moment in time
Bulgarian съединение, шев
- съединение (săedinenie)junction
- шев (šev)junction
- критичен момент (kritičen moment)critical moment in time
Catalan juntura
- junturajunction
Czech spojení, klíčový okamžik
- spojeníjunction
- klíčový okamžikcritical moment in time
- předělmanner of transition between two consecutive sounds
- junkturamanner of transition between two consecutive sounds
Dutch aanhechtingspunt, verbinding
- aanhechtingspuntjunction
- verbindingjunction
- kantelpuntcritical moment in time
Finnish risteys, liitoskohta
- risteysjunction
- liitoskohtajunction
- käännekohtacritical moment in time
- junktuurimanner of transition between two consecutive sounds
French jonction, joncture
- jonctionjunction
- joncturemanner of transition between two consecutive sounds
German Verbindungspunkt, Verbindungsstelle
- Verbindungspunktjunction
- Verbindungsstellejunction
- (kritischer) Augenblickcritical moment in time
- Zeitpunktcritical moment in time
- Stellecritical moment in time
- Junkturmanner of transition between two consecutive sounds
Irish acomhal
- acomhaljunction
Italian congiuntura
- congiunturajunction
Portuguese juntura
- junturajunction
Russian стык, соедине́ние
- стык (styk)junction
- соедине́ние (sojedinénije)junction
- спай (spaj)junction
- ме́сто соедине́ния (mésto sojedinénija)junction
- конъюнкту́ра (konʺjunktúra)critical moment in time
- стече́ние обстоя́тельств (stečénije obstojátelʹstv)critical moment in time
- положе́ние дел (položénije del)critical moment in time
Spanish juntura
- junturajunction
Welsh cydiad, cyswllt
- cydiadjunction
- cyswlltjunction
- cyswlltcritical moment in time
- cyplysiadmanner of transition between two consecutive sounds
Cite this entry
juncture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/juncture
“juncture.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/juncture. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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