Usually means: Source or starting point identified.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. origin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. origin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. origin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. origin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. origin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Origin, origin: Wordnik
  7. origin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. origin: Wiktionary
  9. origin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. origin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. origin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. origin: Dictionary.com
  13. origin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Origin (Angel), Origin (Baxter novel), Origin (Borknagar album), Origin (Brown novel), Origin (Dan Brown novel), Origin (Dayseeker album), Origin (Evanescence album), Origin (Marvel Comics), Origin (Origin album), Origin (Stargate SG-1), Origin (TV series), Origin (anatomy), Origin (band), Origin (comics), Origin (content delivery), Origin (data analysis software), Origin (digital distribution platform), Origin (digital distribution software), Origin (disambiguation), Origin (mathematics), Origin (metal band), Origin (service), Origin (software), Origin, The Origin (Buffy comic), The Origin (The Origin album), The Origin (band), The Origin (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Origin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. origin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. origin: Rhymezone
  18. origin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. origin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. origin: Free Dictionary
  21. origin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. origin: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. origin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. origin: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. origin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. origin: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ORIGIN: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Origin: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. origin: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. origin: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Origin: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The beginning of something.
noun:  The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
noun:  (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
noun:  (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
noun:  (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
noun:  (in the plural) Ancestry.
noun:  (rugby league) the State of Origin series (an annual best-of-three rugby league series between New South Wales and Queensland, nicknamed the "Blues" and the "Maroons", respectively)

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