origin
1. the place where something begins, where it springs into being (Freq. 11)
- 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
• Syn:
beginning, root, rootage, source
• Derivationally related forms:
root (for: rootage), root (for: root), originate
• Hypernyms:
point
• Hyponyms:
derivation, spring, fountainhead, headspring, head,
headwater, wellhead, wellspring, jumping-off place, point of departure, birthplace,
cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience, home, point source,
trail head, trailhead
2. properties attributable to your ancestry (Freq. 3)
- he comes from good origins
• Syn:
descent, extraction
• Hypernyms:
ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
• Hyponyms:
full blood
3. an event that is a beginning;
a first part or stage of subsequent events (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
origination, inception
• Derivationally related forms:
originate (for: origination), originate
• Hypernyms:
beginning
• Hyponyms:
germination, cause, preliminary, overture, prelude,
emanation, rise, procession
4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes;
where the values of the coordinates are all zero (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
intersection
5. the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
- the rumor had its origin in idle gossip
- vegetable origins
- mineral origin
- origin in sensation
• Hypernyms:
source
6. the descendants of one individual
- his entire lineage has been warriors
• Syn:
lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline,
bloodline, blood, pedigree, ancestry, parentage,
stemma, stock
• Derivationally related forms:
parent (for: parentage), descend (for: descent), lineal (for: line)
• Hypernyms:
genealogy, family tree
• Hyponyms:
family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk,
sept, phratry, side
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