| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A person from whom one is descended: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, father, forebear, forefather, foremother, parent, progenitor. Archaic : predecessor. See KIN, PRECEDE. 2. A point of origination: beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root1, rootstock, source, spring, well1. See START.
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