Definition of Origin
Noun: origin or-u-jun [N. Amer], ó-ri-jin [Brit]
- The place where something begins, where it springs into being
"Jupiter was the origin of the radiation";
- beginning, root, rootage, source
- Properties attributable to your ancestry
"he comes from good origins";
- descent, extraction
- An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- origination, inception
- The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- The source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
"the rumour had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"
- The descendants of one individual
"his entire origin has been warriors";
- lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, parentage, stemma, stock
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