'originate' definitions:
Definition of 'originate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow]
verb
Bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation" [syn: originate, initiate, start]
verb
Begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.; "The flight originates in Calcutta"
Synonyms of 'originate'
From: Moby 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