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; communisms Russian root

[ Syn: beginning , root , rootage , source ]

properties attributable to your ancestry; he comes from good origins

[ Syn: descent , extraction ]

an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

[ Syn: origination , inception ]

the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

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'

the descendants of one individual; his entire lineage has been warriors

[ Syn: lineage , line , line of descent , descent , bloodline , blood line , blood , pedigree , ancestry , parentage , stemma , stock ]