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beginning
The time when something begins or is begun:
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  1. The time when something begins or is begun:
  2. The place where something begins or is begun:
  3. The act or process of bringing or being brought into being; a start:
commencement
The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
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  1. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
  2. The act or time of commencing; beginning; start
  3. A beginning; a start.
inauguration
The act of inaugurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.
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  1. The act of inaugurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.
  2. The formal beginning or initiation of any movement, course of action, etc.; as, the inauguration of a new system, a new condition, etc.
  3. A formal beginning or introduction.
inception
The beginning of something; start; commencement
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  1. The beginning of something; start; commencement
incipiency
A state of nascency; a quality of incipience.
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  1. A state of nascency; a quality of incipience.
initiation
A ceremony, ritual, test, or period of instruction with which a new member is admitted to an organization or office or to knowledge.
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  1. A ceremony, ritual, test, or period of instruction with which a new member is admitted to an organization or office or to knowledge.
  2. The act or process of initiating something.
  3. The ceremony or conventions by which a person is initiated into a fraternity, club, etc.
launch
(Nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha.)
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  1. (Nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha.)
  2. (Nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
  3. The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
leadoff
An opening play or move.
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  1. An opening play or move.
  2. One that leads off.
  3. The first in a series of actions, moves, etc.
opening
A beginning; first part; commencement
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  1. A beginning; first part; commencement
  2. (Chess, Checkers) The series of moves at the beginning of a game, often a specific, conventional sequence of moves
  3. Start of operations; formal beginning
start
An opportunity of beginning or entering upon a career, etc.
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  1. An opportunity of beginning or entering upon a career, etc.
  2. A lead or other advantage, as at the beginning of a race or contest
  3. An instance of beginning a race:
kickoff
A similar kick in Rugby.
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  1. A similar kick in Rugby.
  2. (Football) A place kick in football that starts play at the beginning of a half or after a team has scored.
  3. A beginning, as of a campaign or drive
constitution
The physical makeup of a person:
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  1. The physical makeup of a person:
  2. The way in which a government, state, society, etc. is organized
  3. The system of fundamental laws and principles of a government, state, society, corporation, etc., written or unwritten
creation
A creating or being created
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  1. A creating or being created
  2. The divine act by which, according to various religious and philosophical traditions, the world was brought into existence.
  3. The fact or state of having been created.
establishment
The condition or fact of being established.
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  1. The condition or fact of being established.
  2. An arranged order or system, especially a legal code.
  3. An establishing or being established
foundation
Foundation garment
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  1. Foundation garment
  2. An organization established to maintain, assist, or finance institutions or projects of a social, educational, charitable, religious, etc. nature, as by the making of grants
  3. The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance.
institution
The act of instituting:
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  1. The act of instituting:
  2. An established law, custom, practice, system, etc.
  3. An instituting or being instituted; establishment
organization
(Baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.
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  1. (Baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.
  2. A body of persons organized for some specific purpose, as a club, union, or society
  3. The administrative personnel of such a structure:
start-up
One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
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  1. One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
  2. A new business venture
  3. The act or process of starting a process or machine.
Find another word for origination. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for origination, like: beginning, commencement, inauguration, inception, incipience, incipiency, initiation, launch, leadoff, opening and start.

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  • Among other things for which he will be remembered was his origination of harvest festivals.

  • In the Principles of Sociology Spencer's most influential ideas have been that of the social organism, of the origination of religion out of the worship of ancestral ghosts, of the natural antagonism between nutrition and reproduction, industrialism and warfare.

  • Girvanella, found in Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian rocks, as well as in later deposits, appears to have played a part in the origination of oolitic rock-structure.

  • Others are The Primitive Origination of Man (1677); Of the Nature of True Religion, &c. (1684); A Brief Abstract of the Christian Religion (1688).

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