What is the meaning of origin?

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"
  • An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events.
  • 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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