noun
- The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
- usage: "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"
- Properties attributable to your ancestry.
- usage: "he comes from good origins"
- synonyms: descent, extraction
- An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events.
- synonyms: origination, inception
- The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero.
- The source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived.
- usage: "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"
- The descendants of one individual.
- usage: "his entire lineage has been warriors"
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