Origin - Definition
origin
n 1: the place where something begins, where it springs into
being; "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, origin, root, rootage, source]
2: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good
origins" [syn: origin, descent, extraction]
3: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of
subsequent events [syn: origin, origination, inception]
4: the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the
values of the coordinates are all zero
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"
6: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has
been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent,
descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree,
ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]