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originnoun a point or place at which something is invented or providedthe origins of human language remain a matter of considerable debate cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspring beginning, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go(also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, thresholdbaseline, first base, ground zero, square one the source from which something grows or developsthe origin of the tradition of giving presents at Christmastime fountainhead, germ, root, seed, seedbed font, fountain, spring, well, wellhead, wellspringbeginning, birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, incipiency, launch, morning, onset, outset, start, thresholdcreation, inauguration, origination the line of ancestors from whom a person is descendedthey could trace their origins back 15 generations ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, breeding, descent, extraction, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stock, strain heredity, successionfamily, housekin, kindred, relations, relativesrace issue, posterity, progeny, seed offspringchild, heir, inheritor, son, successor origin, source, inception, root mean the point at which something begins its course or existence.origin applies to the things or persons from which something is ultimately derived and often to the causes operating before the thing itself comes into being.an investigation into the origin of baseball source applies more often to the point where something springs into being.the source of the Nile the source of recurrent trouble inception stresses the beginning of something without implying causes.the business has been a success since its inception root suggests a first, ultimate, or fundamental source often not easily discerned.the real root of the violence in the 15th century |