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origin
Found in thesaurus: point, ancestry, filiation, lineage, derivation, beginning, intersection, genealogy, family tree
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origin
n.
source; beginning; birth, parentage, nationality
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Origin
Origin, origins, or original may refer to:
Beginning of the universe and life
- Abiogenesis, the study of how life on Earth arose from inanimate matter
- Cosmogony, any theory concerning the origin of the universe
- Cosmology, the study of the universe and humanity's place in it
- Creation myth, a symbolic account of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it
- Genesis creation narrative, creation as described in the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis in the Bible
- Creatio ex nihilo, Latin for "creation out of nothing", a phrase used in philosophical and theological contexts
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origin
Noun
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"
(synonym) beginning, root, rootage, source
(hypernym) point
(hyponym) derivation
(derivation) originate
2. properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
(synonym) descent, extraction
(hypernym) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
(hyponym) full blood
3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
(synonym) origination, inception
(hypernym) beginning
(hyponym) germination
(derivation) originate
4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
(hypernym) intersection
5. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
(synonym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, parentage, stemma, stock
(hypernym) genealogy, family tree
(hyponym) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
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origin
n.
původ; kořeny
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origin
Rzecz.
geneza; pochodzenie
