Dictionary Definition
originate
Verb
1 come into existence; take on form or shape; "A
new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that
sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a
short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up,
grow]
3 begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane,
train, bus, etc.; "The flight originates in Calcutta"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Verb
Translations
to take first existence
- ttbc French: prendre sa source
- ttbc Luxembourgish: huelen hir quell
- ttbc Telugu: ఉద్భవించు (udbhaviMchu)
Italian
Verb
originate- second-person plural present tense of originare
- second-person plural imperative of originare
- feminine plural past participle of originare
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
arise,
author, be born, bear, become, beget, begin, birth, break ground, break out,
break the ice, breed,
bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to effect, bring
to pass, burst forth, call into being, cause, coin, come, come forth, come from, come
out, come to be, commence, compose, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, contrive, cook up, create, crop up, derive, derive from, design, develop, devise, discover, do, dream up, effect, effectuate, emanate, emerge, engender, erupt, establish, evolve, experience imaginatively,
fabricate, fancy, fantasize, father, fictionalize, flow, form, formulate, found, frame, generate, gestate, get to be, give being
to, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to,
grow, hatch, have origin, head, head up, ideate, imagine, improvise, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, invent, irrupt, issue, issue forth, launch, lead, lead off, lead the way,
make, make do with, make
up, mastermind,
mature, mint, mold, occasion, organize, parent, pioneer, plan, precede, proceed, procreate, produce, realize, result, revolutionize, rise, set afloat, set on foot, set
up, shape, sire, spawn, spring, spring from, spring up,
stand first, start,
stem, stem from, strike
out, suppose, take
birth, take rise, take the initiative, take the lead, take the
plunge, think out, think up, usher in, work