origin

Plural: origins

Noun

• The point or place where something begins or arises.
• the place where something begins, where it springs into being
  • "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
• properties attributable to your ancestry
  • "he comes from good origins"
• an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
• 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
• The beginning of something.
• The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
• An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• Ancestry.

Examples

• Every great Scrabble game has an ORIGIN, often a strong opening move.

Synonyms

ancestry, beginning, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, extraction, inception, line, line of descent, lineage, origination, parentage, pedigree, root, rootage, source, stemma, stock, zero vector

Antonyms

destination, end, insertion

Related Words

orient, provenance