Associations to the word «Origin»

Wiktionary

ORIGIN, noun. The beginning of something.
ORIGIN, noun. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
ORIGIN, noun. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
ORIGIN, noun. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
ORIGIN, noun. (cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
ORIGIN, noun. (in the plural) Ancestry.

Dictionary definition

ORIGIN, 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".
ORIGIN, noun. Properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins".
ORIGIN, noun. An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events.
ORIGIN, noun. The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero.
ORIGIN, noun. 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".
ORIGIN, noun. The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King