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fountainhead
foun·tain·head F0280000 (foun′tən-hĕd′)n.1. A spring that is the source or head of a stream.2. A chief and copious source; an originator: "the intellectual fountainhead of the black conservatives" (Jerrold K. Footlick).fountainhead (ˈfaʊntɪnˌhɛd) n1. (Physical Geography) a spring that is the source of a stream2. a principal or original sourcefoun•tain•head (ˈfaʊn tnˌhɛd)
n. 1. a spring from which a stream flows. 2. a chief source: a fountainhead of information. [1575–85] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | fountainhead - an abundant source; "she was a well of information"wellspring, wellsource - a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story" | | 2. | fountainhead - the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"headspring, headorigin, source, root, rootage, beginning - 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" |
fountainheadnounA point of origination:beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root, rootstock, source, spring, well.Translationsfountainhead
fountainhead a spring that is the source of a stream fountainhead
Synonyms for fountainheadnoun a point of originationSynonyms- beginning
- derivation
- fount
- fountain
- mother
- origin
- parent
- provenance
- provenience
- root
- rootstock
- source
- spring
- well
Synonyms for fountainheadnoun an abundant sourceSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun the source of water from which a stream arisesSynonymsRelated Words- origin
- source
- root
- rootage
- beginning
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