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