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Source Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Source?

[n] a facility where something is available
[n] anything that provides inspiration for later work
[n] a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
[n] a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
[n] 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"
[n] someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints"
[n] a person who supplies information

Synonyms | Synonyms for Source: author | beginning | generator | germ | informant | origin | reference | root | rootage | seed

Related Terms | Find terms related to Source:

See Also | betrayer | birthplace | blabber | coiner | communicator | cradle | derivation | document | facility | fountainhead | fountainhead | Golconda | gold mine | goldmine | head | headspring | headwaters | home | informer | inspiration | installation | jumping-off place | jumping-off point | leaker | maker | muse | papers | place of origin | point | point source | provenance | publication | rat | shaper | source materials | spring | squealer | trail head | well | wellhead | wellspring | wellspring | written document

Source In Webster's Dictionary

\Source\, n. [OE. sours, OF. sourse, surse, sorse, F. source, fr. OF. sors, p. p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See {Surge}, and cf. {Souse} to plunge or swoop as a bird upon its prey.] 1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.] Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two. --Chaucer. 2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain. Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing and his sours. --Chaucer. Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile. --Addison. 3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself. --Locke. The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense. --Pope. Syn: See {Origin}.

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