Origins and sources
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- at source phrase
- base
- bases
- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc. idiom
- beginning
- birth
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- come
- come from somewhere/something phrasal verb
- cradle
- creation myth
- date
- dating
- deracinate
- derivation
- derive
- derive from something phrasal verb
- emanate
- emanate from/through something/someone phrasal verb
- fount
- fountainhead
- gateway drug
- genesis
- hail
- hail from somewhere phrasal verb
- issue
- issue from something phrasal verb
- misdate
- mother
- multisource
- natal
- origin
- originate
- paternity
- provenance
- recipe
- root
- seed
- seed corn
- single-origin
- son
- source
- stem
- stem from something phrasal verb
- the cradle of something idiom
- the mother of something idiom
- ur-
- wellspring
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to be less important or in a weaker position than someone else
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