DICTOMETER

ORIGIN

(origin, origen, procedencia, opphav, opprinnelse)

1. Synonyms:
   • Beginning
   • Origin
   • Root
   • Rootage
   • Source
   Definitions:
   • the place where something begins, where it springs into being
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Origin
   • Descent
   • Extraction
   Definitions:
   • properties attributable to your ancestry
   Examples:
   • He comes from good origins
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Origin
   • Origination
   • Inception
   Definitions:
   • an event that is a beginning
   • a first part or stage of subsequent events
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Origin
   Definitions:
   • the point of intersection of coordinate axes
   • where the values of the coordinates are all zero
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Origin
   Definitions:
   • the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
   Examples:
   • The rumor had its origin in idle gossip
   • Vegetable origins
   • Mineral origin
   • Origin in sensation
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Lineage
   • Line
   • Line of descent
   • Descent
   • Bloodline
   • Blood line
   • Blood
   • Pedigree
   • Ancestry
   • Origin
   • Parentage
   • Stemma
   • Stock
   Definitions:
   • the descendants of one individual
   Examples:
   • His entire lineage has been warriors