Meaning of SOURCE
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | author, beginning, generator, germ, informant, origin, reference, root, rootage, seed |
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| | 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 | |
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Doty ponders how the self is defined in the public world, as his narratives navigate the summer crowds of Provincetown, sidewalk culture in New York City, and the byways of the imagination. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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