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How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: source, root, rootage, beginning
Categories: point
Within this category: birthplace, derivation, fountainhead, headwaters, home, jumping-off place, point source, spring, trail head, wellhead
How to sign: the descendants of one individual
"his entire lineage has been warriors";
Similiar / Same: lineage, bloodline, blood line, pedigree, ancestry, line of descent, blood, stemma, parentage, descent, stock, line
Categories: family tree, genealogy