Originate
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English
Verb
Originate (third-person singular simple present Originates, present participle originating, simple past and past participle originated)
- (transitive) To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new; to be the first actor to play (a role)
- For the first time since Douglas Fairbanks Sr. originated the role in the 1920 silent "The Mark of Zorro," the hero will be played by a Hispanic actor. — James Hebert, "Banderas puts his mark on 'Zorro'" San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 1998 p.E1
- (intransitive) To take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin to exist or act.
- The scheme originated with the governor and council.
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Adverbs for Originate
artificially; primevally; mysteriously; exclusively; authenticatedly; germinally; volcanically; celestially; legitimately; normally; mythically.
Thesaurus
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
