origin
origin is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
- noun. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
- noun. The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
- noun. properties attributable to your ancestry
"he comes from good origins"
- noun. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- noun. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- noun. the descendants of one individual
"his entire lineage has been warriors"
- noun. the place where something begins, where it springs into being
"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
"Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
- 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"
Synonyms
descent, extraction, inception, origination, ancestry, blood, bloodline, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock, beginning, root, rootage, source
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in origin:
Common word forms
origins, original, origines, originable
Words from these letters
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