PLACE OF ORIGIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does place of origin mean? 

• PLACE OF ORIGIN (noun)
  The noun PLACE OF ORIGIN has 1 sense:

1. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

  Familiarity information: PLACE OF ORIGIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLACE OF ORIGIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

birthplace; cradle; place of origin; provenance; provenience

Context example:

the birthplace of civilization

Hypernyms ("place of origin" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)

 Context examples 

“Jagged or torn,” was the message, and the place of origin, Baden.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)