• n.
    ⦿the place where something begins, where it springs into being
    lexical concept
  • Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
  • Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
  • communism's Russian root
  • the Italian beginning of the Renaissance

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:beginning
  2. enl:origin
  3. enl:root
  4. enl:rootage
  5. enl:source
wn:interlingual indexili:i81759
wn:eq synonymdn:kilde1§1a

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • beginningoriginrootrootagesource
  • rootage