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
The R.S.S. is widely considered the ideological fountainhead for Mr. Modi’s party.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
Yet bordering countries, as well as some in the wider region, fear a Taliban-led state could pose a potent threat — as an exporter of extremism, or a fountainhead of refugee flight, or both.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
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
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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