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cradlesnounpl. of cradle a place of originPhiladelphia is known as "the cradle of liberty" because it was there that the Declaration of Independence was signed a point or place at which something is invented or providedthe 1848 meeting at Seneca Falls, New York, is often regarded as the cradle of the women's suffrage movement fonts, fountainheads, fountains, origins, roots, seedbeds, sources, springs, wells, wellsprings beginnings, commencements, dawns, day ones, geneses, get-goes(also git-goes), inceptions, incipiences, incipiencies, kickoffs, launches, mornings, nascences, nascencies, onsets, outsets, starts, thresholdsbaselines, first bases, ground zeros, square ones |