Definitions for origin

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origin or·i·gin

Spelling: [awr-i-jin, or-]

IPA: /ˈɔr ɪ dʒɪn, ˈɒr-/

Origin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in origin (giinor).

Definitions for origin

noun

1. something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead:
2. rise or derivation from a particular source:
3. the first stage of existence; beginning:
4. ancestry; parentage; extraction:
5. Anatomy. the point of derivation. the more fixed portion of a muscle.
6. Mathematics. the point in a Cartesian coordinate system where the axes intersect. Also called pole. the point from which rays designating specific angles originate and are measured from in a polar coordinate system with no axes.

Origin of origin

1350-1400; Middle English Latin orīgin- (stem of orīgō) beginning, source, lineage, derivative of orīrī to rise; cf. orient

Examples for origin

The trout-fly settled all doubts in my mind as to his origin and his identity.

The virus had to come from somewhere, but no one could figure out its origin.

Black Alice and Strix have origin stories that more closely resemble the archetypal comic heroes.

Roughly 40 percent of Americans seem to endorse some Creationist concept of history and origin.

Here we trace the origin of the infelicity of this religious household.

Fanny betrayed in her face the Italian origin of her father.

Some of the more notorious “green on blue” attacks have their origin in such outraged honor.

I am not answerable for offences which have their origin in the eyes of the multitude.

“The origin of Brokpas is lost in antiquity,” a research article from the University of Delhi notes.

We see that the puzzle about identity proves at last to be of Grecian origin.