noun
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a spring that is the source of a stream
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a principal or original source
Etymology
Origin of fountainhead
Example Sentences
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The Endless, anthropomorphized personifications of human ideas, beliefs and states of being, already serves as a fountainhead of clever metaphorical narratives.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
It would mean acknowledging that Aryans or their Vedic culture were not the singular fountainhead of Indian civilisation and that its earliest sources lay elsewhere.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2018
Such is the response, in swift summary, of most of the art historians who have written about “Olympia,” a fountainhead of modern art and a painting as enigmatic as it is arresting.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
The story begins with a collage, a painting, a decorated sweatshirt and the truck by the movement’s artistically gifted, personally foul fountainhead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2018
I think that nowhere is the black continent’s wealth and the natural beauty of its people richer than in Ghana, which is so proudly the very fountainhead of Pan-Africanism.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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