noun
Meaning 1
The process of forming roots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rootage
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noun
Meaning 2
Roots collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
the place where something begins, where it springs into being
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, source
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: point
Narrower terms: derivation, spring, fountainhead, headspring, head, headwater, wellhead, wellspring, jumping-off place, point of departure, birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience, home, point source, trail head, trailhead
noun
Meaning 4
a developed system of roots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: root system
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: system, scheme
noun
Meaning 5
fixedness by or as if by roots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stationariness, immobility, fixedness
History
Etymology
root + -age