Definition of 'origin'

Noun

1. 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"
      Synonyms: beginning root rootage source
2. properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
      Synonyms: descent extraction
3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
      Synonyms: origination inception
4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
5. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
      Synonyms: lineage line line of descent descent bloodline blood line blood pedigree ancestry parentage stemma stock

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