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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. fixedness by or as if by roots;
- Example: "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"

2. a developed system of roots;
[syn: rootage, root system]

3. the place where something begins, where it springs into being;
- Example: "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
- Example: "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
- Example: "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"
- Example: "communism's Russian root"
[syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rootage
    n 1: fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in
         the firm soil of faith"
    2: a developed system of roots [syn: rootage, root system]
    3: the place where something begins, where it springs into
       being; "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" [syn:
       beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]