Fountainhead

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  • noun. A spring that is the source or head of a stream.
  • noun. A chief and copious source; an originator.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A fountain or spring from which a stream of water flows; the head or source of a stream; hence, primary source in general; original.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. an abundant source.
  • noun. the source of water from which a stream arises.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a spring that is the source of a river
  • noun. an abundant source of knowledge, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an abundant source
  • noun. the source of water from which a stream arises
  • Word Usage
    "Since that day, more than forty years ago, Greenspan has become the figurehead (not the "fountainhead" - figurehead) for a new form of "establishment radicalism," a white-collar extremism which that has hijacked American economic policy for the last thirty years."
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    beginning  origin  root  rootage  source  
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    font  fount  fountain  head  headspring