Synonyms for origin
ˈɔr ɪ dʒɪn, ˈɒr-ori·gin

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1. originnoun

   The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

   Synonyms:
   source

2. originnoun

   Synonyms:
   zero vector

3. originnoun

   Antonyms:
   insertion

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1. origin

   The Latin commencement is more formal than the Saxon beginning, as the verb commence, is more formal than begin. Commencement is for the most part restricted to some form of action, while beginning has no restriction, but may be applied to action, state, material, extent, enumeration, or to whatever else may be conceived of as having a first part, point, degree, etc. The letter A is at the beginning (not the commencement) of every alphabet. If we were to speak of the commencement of the Pacific Railroad, we should be understood to refer to the enterprise and its initiatory act; if we were to refer to the roadway we should say "Here is the beginning of the Pacific Railroad." In the great majority of cases begin and beginning are preferable to commence and commencement as the simple, idiomatic English words, always accurate and expressive. "In the beginning was the word," John i, 1. An origin is the point from which something starts or sets out, often involving, and always suggesting causal connection; as, the origin of evil; the origin of a nation, a government, or a family. A source is that which furnishes a first and continuous supply, that which flows forth freely or may be readily recurred to; as, the source of a river; a source of knowledge; a source of inspiration; fertile land is a source (not an origin) of wealth. A rise is thought of as in an action; we say that a lake is the source of a certain river, or that the river takes its rise from the lake. Motley wrote of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic." Fount, fountain, and spring, in their figurative senses, keep close to their literal meaning. Compare CAUSE.

   See synonyms for END.

   Synonyms:
   arising, beginning, commencement, fount, fountain, inauguration, inception, initiation, opening, outset, rise, source, spring, start

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1. origin

   Synonyms:
   source, commencement, spring, cause, derivation, rise, beginning

   Antonyms:
   termination, conclusion, extinction

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beginning, origin, root, rootage, sourcenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   extraction, start, get-go, showtime, seed, parentage, ascendent, base, pedigree, offset, tooth root, reference, theme, ascendant, informant, root system, rootage, first, etymon, germ, radical, root, kickoff, descent, stemma, source, ancestor, inception, antecedent, stock, origination, author, lineage, reservoir, line, outset, line of descent, stem, root word, starting time, bloodline, generator, solution, ancestry, beginning, commencement, blood, blood line

2. origin, descent, extractionnoun

   properties attributable to your ancestry

   "he comes from good origins"

   Synonyms:
   fall, rootage, parentage, declination, lineage, downslope, root, declension, stock, ancestry, stemma, descent, blood, extraction, decline, declivity, inception, line of descent, line, blood line, pedigree, source, bloodline, origination, filiation, beginning

3. origin, origination, inceptionnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   rootage, innovation, parentage, instauration, lineage, introduction, root, stock, creation, ancestry, founding, stemma, descent, blood, extraction, inception, line of descent, line, blood line, pedigree, source, initiation, bloodline, origination, foundation, beginning, institution

4. originnoun

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

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

5. originnoun

   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"

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

6. lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stocknoun

   the descendants of one individual

   "his entire lineage has been warriors"

   Synonyms:
   personal credit line, inception, cable, business, billet, stemma, origination, rakehell, store, beginning, ancestry, filiation, roue, agate line, lineage, crinkle, stock, telephone circuit, declivity, farm animal, linage, seam, inventory, bloodline, root, course, crease, melodic line, air, channel, short letter, production line, job, occupation, assembly line, parenthood, contrast, downslope, gillyflower, birth, product line, livestock, line of work, blood, bank line, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, rake, melody, decline, derivation, strain, neckcloth, dividing line, rootage, transmission line, breed, ocellus, gunstock, line of descent, argumentation, profligate, logical argument, phone line, furrow, rail line, parentage, wrinkle, descent, blood line, melodic phrase, fund, rip, line of business, pedigree, extraction, declination, pipeline, line of credit, line, business line, railway line, demarcation, subscriber line, line of products, stock certificate, fall, communication channel, caudex, telephone line, credit line, declension, source, broth, line of reasoning, tune, note, simple eye, argument

Matched Categories

1. • Genealogy
   • Intersection
   • Lineage
   • Source

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1. originnoun

   Synonyms:
   source, rise, spring, beginning, commencement, birth, cradle, original, fountain-head, starting-point

2. originnoun

   Synonyms:
   cause, occasion

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1. originnoun

   Synonyms:
   source, beginning, derivation, rise, origination

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1. List of paraphrases for "origin":

   source, origins, original, descent, 'origine, provenance, originating, origine, origen, root, ancestry, home, background, backgrounds, rise, genesis, cause, sources, originated, indigenous, roots, originate, responsible, originator

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How to use origin in a sentence?

1. David Asher:

   At the State Department in the last months of the last administration we did n’t draw or assert any conclusions, but we worked successfully to reveal certain facts and raise significant questions about the clear plausibility of a lab leak origin, this was a global public service, and it is good that experts and journalists are increasingly turning their own attention to the issue, albeit belatedly.

2. Diana Dragomir:

   TOI1231b could have a large hydrogen or hydrogen-helium atmosphere, or a denser water vapor atmosphere, each of these would point to a different origin, allowing astronomers to understand whether and how planets form differently around M dwarfs when compared to the planets around our Sun, for example.

3. Ron Ballouz:

   One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Phobos is its origin was it created from a giant impact onto Mars that created a debris disk around the planet that eventually coalesced into Phobos, or was it once an asteroid that was captured by Mars gravity?

4. Lyn Wadley:

   We see the cognitive foundations for later innovations from close to the origin of our species, we see people's strategic control of the environment through the deliberate creation and use of fire and its products.

5. George Will:

   We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.