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properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events 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" the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" |
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