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origin


 
  Grep  of  noun  origin 
  country  of  origin 
  origin 
  original 
  original  sin 
  originalism 
  originality 
  origination 
  origination  fee 
  originator 
  place  of  origin 
  time  of  origin 
 
  Overview  of  noun  origin 
 
  The  noun  origin  has  5  senses  (first  4  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (11)  beginning,  origin,  root,  rootage,  source  --  (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") 
  2.  (3)  origin,  descent,  extraction  --  (properties  attributable  to  your  ancestry;  "he  comes  from  good  origins") 
  3.  (1)  origin,  origination,  genesis,  inception  --  (an  event  that  is  a  beginning;  a  first  part  or  stage  of  subsequent  events) 
  4.  (1)  origin  --  (the  point  of  intersection  of  coordinate  axes;  where  the  values  of  the  coordinates  are  all  zero) 
  5.  lineage,  line  line  of  descent,  descent,  bloodline,  blood  line  blood,  pedigree,  ancestry,  origin,  parentage,  stock  --  (the  descendants  of  one  individual;  "his  entire  lineage  has  been  warriors") 
 
  Grep  of  adj  origin 
  original 
  originative 
 
  Overview  of  noun  origin 
 
  The  noun  origin  has  5  senses  (first  4  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (11)  beginning,  origin,  root,  rootage,  source  --  (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") 
  2.  (3)  origin,  descent,  extraction  --  (properties  attributable  to  your  ancestry;  "he  comes  from  good  origins") 
  3.  (1)  origin,  origination,  genesis,  inception  --  (an  event  that  is  a  beginning;  a  first  part  or  stage  of  subsequent  events) 
  4.  (1)  origin  --  (the  point  of  intersection  of  coordinate  axes;  where  the  values  of  the  coordinates  are  all  zero) 
  5.  lineage,  line  line  of  descent,  descent,  bloodline,  blood  line  blood,  pedigree,  ancestry,  origin,  parentage,  stock  --  (the  descendants  of  one  individual;  "his  entire  lineage  has  been  warriors") 



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