noun
1. fixedness by or as if by roots
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strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith
• Hypernyms: ↑stationariness, ↑immobility, ↑fixedness
2. a developed system of roots
• Syn: ↑root system
• Part Meronyms: ↑root
3. the place where something begins, where it springs into being
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the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
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Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
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Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
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communism's Russian root
• Hypernyms: ↑point
• Hyponyms:
↑derivation, ↑spring, ↑fountainhead, ↑headspring, ↑head, ↑headwater, ↑wellhead, ↑wellspring, ↑jumping-off place, ↑point of departure, ↑birthplace, ↑cradle, ↑place of origin, ↑provenance, ↑provenience, ↑home, ↑point source, ↑trail head, ↑trailhead
Useful english dictionary. 2012.