origin

About 45.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The beginning of something.

   place of origin

2. noun The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
3. noun The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
4. noun The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
5. noun An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
6. noun Ancestry.

Similar words

inception genesis beginning origination extraction source stock descent parentage pedigree

Often followed by

of and in to is from or for as

Word family

origins