The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.
A video game console, the Sega Genesis, also marketed as the Mega Drive outside North America.
The first book in the Hebrew Bible.
Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning”). Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Dou...
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A female given name from Ancient Greek of American usage since the 1980s.