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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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