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English noun: origin | |||
| 1. | origin (location) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | beginning, root, rootage, source | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | point | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | birthplace, cradle, derivation, fountainhead, head, headspring, headwater, home, jumping-off place, place of origin, point of departure, point source, provenance, provenience, spring, trail head, trailhead, wellhead, wellspring | ||
| 2. | origin (attribute) properties attributable to your ancestry | ||
| Samples | He comes from good origins. | ||
| Synonyms | descent, extraction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ancestry, derivation, filiation, lineage | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | full blood | ||
| 3. | origin (event) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | ||
| Synonyms | inception, origination | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | beginning | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cause, emanation, germination, overture, preliminary, prelude, procession, rise | ||
| 4. | origin (cognition) the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intersection | ||
| 5. | origin (process) the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived | ||
| Samples | The rumor had its origin in idle gossip. Vegetable origins. Mineral origin. Origin in sensation. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | source | ||
| 6. | origin (group) the descendants of one individual | ||
| Samples | His entire lineage has been warriors. | ||
| Synonyms | ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | family tree, genealogy | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, side | ||
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