1. origin - 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"
Synonym(s): beginning, root, rootage, source
Hypernym(s): point
2. origin - noun
· properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
Synonym(s): descent, extraction
Hypernym(s): ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
3. origin - noun
· an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
Synonym(s): origination, inception
Hypernym(s): beginning
4. origin - noun
· the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
Hypernym(s): intersection
5. 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"
Hypernym(s): source
6. origin - noun
· the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
Synonym(s): lineage, line, line_of_descent, descent, bloodline, blood_line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, parentage, stemma, stock
Hypernym(s): genealogy, family_tree
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