origin
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(noun) properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" |
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Synonyms: descent, extraction |
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Related Words: ancestry, derivation, filiation, full blood, lineage |
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(noun) the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero |
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Related Words: intersection |
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(noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events |
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Synonyms: genesis, inception, origination |
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Related Words: beginning, cause, overture, preliminary, prelude |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: beginning, root, source |
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Related Words: birthplace, cradle, derivation, fountainhead, head, headspring, headwaters, home, jumping-off place, jumping-off point, place of origin, point, point source, provenance, spring, wellhead, wellspring |
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(noun) the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" |
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Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stock |
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Related Words: breed, family, family line, family tree, folk, genealogy, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, side |
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