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cradle

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1 a place of origin

Philadelphia is known as "the cradle of liberty" because it was there that the Declaration of Independence was signed

Synonyms of cradle

birthplace, home, mother country, motherland

Words Related to cradle

Blighty [chiefly British], country, nativity, old country, roots

2 a point or place at which something is invented or provided

the 1848 meeting at Seneca Falls, New York, is often regarded as the cradle of the women's suffrage movement

Synonyms of cradle

font, fountain, fountainhead, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspring

Words Related to cradle

beginning, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold

baseline, first base, ground zero, square one

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