Synonyms: root, rootage, source, beginning, origin
Definition: the place where something begins, where it springs into being
Usage: the Italian beginning of the Renaissance; Jupiter was the origin of the radiation; Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River; communism's Russian root
Similar words: point
Definition: the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
Usage: she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street
Synonyms: root system, rootage
Definition: a developed system of roots
Definition: a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
Usage: a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going
Synonyms: rootage
Definition: fixedness by or as if by roots
Usage: strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith
Similar words: fixedness, stationariness, immobility
Definition: remaining in place