fountnoun
uk/faʊnt/us/faʊnt/literary or humorousthe fount of all knowledge, gossip, wisdom, etc.
the person or place from which all information on a particular subject comes:
He's renowned as the fount of all knowledge on the disease.
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- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc. idiom
- beginning
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- come from somewhere/sth
- emanate from/through sth/sb
- genesis
- hail from somewhere
- issue
- issue from sth
- origin
- root
- seed
- son
- source
- stem
- stem from sth
- the cradle of sth idiom
- ur-
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