noun
the place where something begins, where it springs into being
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- 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
noun
properties attributable to your ancestry
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- he comes from good origins
noun
an event that is a beginning
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- a first part or stage of subsequent events
noun
the point of intersection of coordinate axes
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- where the values of the coordinates are all zero
noun
the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
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- the rumor had its origin in idle gossip
- vegetable origins
- mineral origin
- origin in sensation
noun
the descendants of one individual
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- his entire lineage has been warriors