noun#1,477 by frequency
origin
/ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/
The beginning of something; The source of a river, information, goods, etc; Ancestry
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Meanings
- 1
The beginning of something
Because of its origins, Canadian English has features of both American and British English.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
The origin of this word is unknown.
Tatoeba · DanielDaniel · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
The source of a river, information, goods, etc
- 3
Ancestry
- 4
The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersectrare
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The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that musclerare
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An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinatesrare