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.
- base
- bases
- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc.idiom
- beginning
- birth
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- come
- come fromsomewhere/something
- cradle
- date
- derivation
- derive
- derive fromsomething
- emanate
- emanate from/throughsomething/someone
- fount
- fountainhead
- gateway drug
- genesis
- hail
- hail fromsomewhere
- issue
- issue fromsomething
- misdate
- multisource
- natal
- origin
- originate
- paternity
- provenance
- recipe
- root
- seed
- seed corn
- son
- source
- stem
- stem fromsomething
- the cradle ofsomethingidiom
- ur-
- wellspring