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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun birthplace has 2 senses

• birthplace(n = noun.location) place of birth - the place where someone was born; Array
is a kind of place, spot, topographic point

• birthplace(n = noun.location) cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization"
is a kind of beginning, origin, root, rootage, source

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THESAURUS

birthplace

Vaterland, breeding place, brooder, cradle, fatherland, forcing bed, hatchery, home, homeground, homeland, hotbed, incubator, la patrie, mother country, motherland, native land, native soil, nest, nidus, nursery, patria, rookery, the old country

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Cause

N cause, origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, vera causa, author, mainspring, agent, leaven, groundwork, foundation, spring, fountain, well, font, fountainhead, spring head, wellhead, fons et origo, genesis, descent, remote cause, influence, pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum, key, proximate cause, causa causans, straw that breaks the camel's back, ground, reason, reason why, why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation, final cause, les dessous des cartes, undercurrents, rudiment, egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm, nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed, causality, causation, origination, production, caused, causal, original, primary, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, protogenal, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in embryo, in ovo, seminal, germinal, at the bottom of, connate, having a common origin, because, behind the scenes, causa latet vis est notissima, felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

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