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 fountainhead of American bohemia, Greenwich Village has always departed from the straight and narrow.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
That’s when a theater kid from Compton, Calif., flew some 3,000 miles from home to begin his freshman year at “The Mecca,” what Howard students call the historically Black fountainhead of talent.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 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
Those guys, to me, were like the fountainhead of everything that I did, you know from the time I was a little kid I was obsessed with Laurel and Hardy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 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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