Originnoun
The beginning of something.
Birthplacenoun
The location where a person was born.
âPortsmouth was Charles Dickensâ birthplace.â;
Originnoun
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
Birthplacenoun
(by extension) The location where something was created or devised.
âConey Island was the birthplace of the hot dog.â;
Originnoun
(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
Birthplacenoun
The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.
Originnoun
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
Birthplacenoun
the place where someone was born
Originnoun
(cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
Birthplacenoun
where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence;
âthe birthplace of civilizationâ;
Originnoun
(in the plural) Ancestry.
Originnoun
The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
âThis mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry.â;
Originnoun
That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
Originnoun
The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; - in contradistinction to insertion.
âI think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas - the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs.â; âFamous Greece,That source of art and cultivated thoughtWhich they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought.â;
Originnoun
the place where something begins, where it springs into being;
âthe Italian beginning of the Renaissanceâ; âJupiter was the origin of the radiationâ; âPittsburgh is the source of the Ohio Riverâ; âcommunism's Russian rootâ;
Originnoun
properties attributable to your ancestry;
âhe comes from good originsâ;
Originnoun
an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
Originnoun
the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
Originnoun
the descendants of one individual;
âhis entire lineage has been warriorsâ;