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List of meaning for origin

the place or situation from which a person or thing came forth

beginning, origin, root, rootage, source(noun)

the place where something begins, where it springs into being

"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"

origin, descent, extraction(noun)

properties attributable to your ancestry

"he comes from good origins"

origin, origination, inception(noun)

an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

origin(noun)

the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

origin(noun)

the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived

"the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"

lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock(noun)

the descendants of one individual

"his entire lineage has been warriors"

a point or place at which something is invented or provided

the origins of human language remain a matter of considerable debate

the source from which something grows or develops

the origin of the tradition of giving presents at Christmastime

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended

they could trace their origins back 15 generations

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