fountainhead

[ foun-tn-hed ]

/ ˈfaʊn tnˌhɛd /

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noun

a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.

a chief source of anything: a fountainhead of information.

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Origin of fountainhead

First recorded in 1575–85; fountain + head

Words nearby fountainhead

foundry sand, foundry type, fount, fountain, fountain grass, fountainhead, Fountain of Youth, fountain pen, fountain plant, Fountains Abbey, Fountain Valley

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How to use fountainhead in a sentence

In 1949 his wife Lauren Bacall was slated to star alongside Gary Cooper in the adaptation of Rand's The Fountainhead.
Great Weekend Reads|The Daily Beast|April 23, 2011|DAILY BEAST
To RJ Eskow of the Campaign for America's Future, his plan is " The Fountainhead meets Death Race 2000."
Big-Spending Budget Hawk|Benjamin Sarlin|July 29, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Pauline Kael nailed The Fountainhead, both the novel and the film made from it, as “wildly extravagant Kitsch.”
Capitalism's Wicked Witch|Allen Barra|November 27, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Like others, Barkan also says that hip-hop has cut into a traditional fountainhead of jazz audiences, African-Americans.
Can Michelle Save Jazz?|Judith H. Dobrzynski|June 20, 2009|DAILY BEAST

There are many excellent maps issued, but it is best to go to the fountainhead, to the publications of the Ordnance Survey.
The Cornwall Coast|Arthur L. Salmon
French Gothic churches are a fountainhead, and should rank first.
How France Built Her Cathedrals|Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
Your Spanish royalty is the keystone, the fountainhead, of Spanish society, is it not?
The Wolf Cub|Patrick Casey
But to find the supreme example of Bahai tagiya we have to go to the fountainhead.
Bahaism and Its Claims|Samuel Graham Wilson
I think we English folk might learn from them to put more joy into our work, that fountainhead of life and health.
The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28|Various

British Dictionary definitions for fountainhead

fountainhead

/ (ˈfaʊntɪnˌhɛd) /

noun

a spring that is the source of a stream

a principal or original source

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