origin meaning and definition

ORIGIN noun

Definition of origin (noun)

1. 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: beginning, root, rootage, source
2. properties attributable to your ancestry
   • "he comes from good origins"
   • synonyms: descent, extraction
3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
   • synonyms: inception, origination
4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
5. 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"
6. the descendants of one individual
   • "his entire lineage has been warriors"
   • synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock