Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
- 2noun
That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
- 3noun
The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
- 4noun
properties attributable to your ancestry
"he comes from good origins"
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- 5noun
the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- 6noun
an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
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- 7noun
the descendants of one individual
"his entire lineage has been warriors"
- 8noun
the place where something begins, where it springs into being
"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
"Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
- 9noun
the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
"the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"
"vegetable origins"
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