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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Muslims attached to the Gyanvapi mosque said the court-appointed surveyors had mistaken a fountainhead in the water tank as a Hindu idol and motifs were flowers embedded in Persian design.
From Reuters • May 20, 2022
Junior set aside millions of dollars for the gardens, reflecting pools and art — works like Rene Paul Chambellan’s bronze fountainhead sculptures of mermaids and tritons in the Channel Gardens.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2020
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 only fountainhead which had once been near and which had once sung loudly within him, now murmured softly in the distance.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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