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sourcenoun a point or place at which something is invented or providedwe were uncertain as to the source of the rumors a source of inspiration cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, origin, root, seedbed, spring, well, wellspring beginning, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go(also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, thresholdbaseline, first base, ground zero, square one the beginning part of a stream19th-century explorers who sought the source of the Nile head, headstream, headwater fountain, fountainhead, geyser, headspring, hot spring, spring, wellspringbranch, feeder, tributary something mentioned in a text as providing related and especially supporting informationthe professor asked the students to have at least five different sources for their papers authority, reference citation, excerpt, extract, quotationcaption, cross-reference, footnote, note origin, source, inception, root mean the point at which something begins its course or existence.origin applies to the things or persons from which something is ultimately derived and often to the causes operating before the thing itself comes into being.an investigation into the origin of baseball source applies more often to the point where something springs into being.the source of the Nile the source of recurrent trouble inception stresses the beginning of something without implying causes.the business has been a success since its inception root suggests a first, ultimate, or fundamental source often not easily discerned.the real root of the violence in the 14th century |