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| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming alive |
| Synonyms: | act of God, bearing, beginning, blessed event*, childbirth, creation, delivery, labor, parturition, producing, travail, birthing, childbearing, nascency, natality, nativity, visit from stork |
| Antonyms: | death |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | commencement, dawn, emergence, fountainhead, genesis, onset, opening, origin, outset, rise, source, start, dawning |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, death, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heritage |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, background, blood, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, legacy, line, lineage, pedigree, position, race, rank, station, status, stock, strain, forebears, heritance, parentage |
| Main Entry: | awakening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | making conscious or alert |
| Synonyms: | birth, incitement, kindling, provocation, rebirth, renewal, revival, rousing, stimulation, waking, activation, animating, arousal, awaking, enlivening, stirring up, vivication, waking up |
| Antonyms: | sleep, sleeping |
| Main Entry: | commencement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony marking the beginning of stage |
| Synonyms: | admission, alpha, birth, bow, celebration, convocation, countdown, dawn, genesis, graduation, initiation, kickoff*, onset, opening, outset, proem, start, curtain-raiser, dawning, opener, services, starting point, tee off |
| Antonyms: | cessation, completion, end, ending, finish, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emanate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come forth; give off |
| Synonyms: | arise, birth, derive, discharge, egress, emerge, emit, exhale, exit, exude, flow, initiate, issue, originate, proceed, radiate, rise, spring, stem, send forth |
| Antonyms: | take, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, birth, blood, brood, clan, class, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, genealogy, genre, group, house, household, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, network, pedigree, people, progeny, race, relationship, strain, subdivision, system, tribe, ancestors, children, descendants, forebears, generations, heirs and assigns, in-laws, ménage, parentage, progenitors, relations, relatives, siblings |
| Main Entry: | genesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, creation |
| Synonyms: | alpha, birth, commencement, dawn, formation, generation, inception, opening, origin, outset, propagation, provenance, root, source, start, dawning, engendering, provenience |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale, finish |
| Main Entry: | inception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | birth, commencement, dawn, derivation, fountain, inauguration, initiation, kickoff, origin, outset, provenance, rise, root, source, start, well, wellspring, provenience |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | lineage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, blood, breed, clan, descent, extraction, family, folk, genealogy, heredity, house, kin, kindred, line, offspring, origin, pedigree, progeny, race, stock, succession, tribe, descendants, forebears, progenitors, stirps |
| Notes: | linage (pronounced LYE-nij) refers to the number of lines of printed material, as in a newspaper; lineage (pronounced LIN-ee-ij) refers to ancestry, derivation, or line of descent |
| Main Entry: | onset |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; attack |
| Synonyms: | access, aggression, assault, birth, charge, commencement, dawn, encounter, inception, kickoff*, offense, offensive, onrush, onslaught, opening, origin, outbreak, outset, rush, seizure, start, assailment, dawning, incipience, onfall, outstart |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | origination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | beginning, birth, commencement, conception, creation, dawn, discovery, genesis, innovation, introduction, launch, source, start, dawning, starting point |
| Main Entry: | blessed event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | live birth of a child |
| Synonyms: | birth, childbirth, delivery, parturition, birthing, happy event, natality, visit from the stork |
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start of an event or action |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, commencement, creation, dawn, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, source, spring, square one*, takeoff, threshold, top, blastoff, dawning, day one, opener, point of departure, rudiment, starting point |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | originate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | begin; spring |
| Synonyms: | arise, birth, come, come from, commence, dawn, derive, emanate, emerge, flow, issue, proceed, result, rise, start, stem, be born, come into existence, hail from |
| Antonyms: | end, finish, terminate |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | standing in a system, often a social one |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, authority, birth, blood, cachet, capacity, caste, circumstance, class, classification, condition, consequence, degree, dignity, distinction, division, echelon, estate, esteem, family, footing, grade, hierarchy, level, nobility, note, order, pecking order, pedigree, place, position, primacy, privilege, quality, reputation, seniority, situation, slot, sort, sovereignty, sphere, state, station, stature, status, stock, stratum, supremacy, type, paramountcy, parentage |
| Main Entry: | start |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | alpha*, birth, bow, commencement, countdown, dawn, derivation, exit, flying start*, foundation, inauguration, inception, initiation, kickoff*, onset, opening, origin, outset, source, spring, square one*, takeoff, dawning, day one, embarkation, first step, jump-off, leaving, running start, setting out, start-off |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, death, end, ending, finish, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin, cause |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, birth, conception, egg, embryo, font, fountain, fountainhead, generation, genesis, germ, heart, principle, resource, root, seed, stem, well, fount |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, outcome, result |
| Main Entry: | blood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, consanguinity, descent, extraction, family, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, stock, descendants, relations |
| Main Entry: | class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | societal group, background |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, birth, breed, caliber, caste, circle, clan, clique, club, company, condition, connection, coterie, degree, derivation, descent, estate, extraction, family, genealogy, grade, hierarchy, influence, league, lineage, moiety, nobility, origin, pecking order*, pedigree, pigeonhole*, place, position, prestige, quality, sect, source, sphere, standing, state, station, status, stock, strain, stratum, tier, title, bourgeoisie, cultural level, intelligentsia, social rank, the right stuff |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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