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foun·tain·head

 (foun′tən-hĕd′)
n.
1. A spring that is the source or head of a stream.
2. A chief and copious source; an originator: "the intellectual fountainhead of the black conservatives" (Jerrold K. Footlick).
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fountainhead

(ˈfaʊntɪnˌhɛd)
n
1. (Physical Geography) a spring that is the source of a stream
2. a principal or original source
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foun•tain•head

(ˈfaʊn tnˌhɛd)

n.
1. a spring from which a stream flows.
2. a chief source: a fountainhead of information.
[1575–85]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.fountainhead - an abundant source; "she was a well of information"
wellspring, well
source - a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
2.fountainhead - the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"
headspring, head
origin, source, root, rootage, beginning - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
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fountainhead

noun
A point of origination:
beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root, rootstock, source, spring, well.
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Translations

fountainhead

[ˈfaʊntɪnhed] N → fuente f, origen m
to go to the fountainhead → acudir a la propia fuente
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The first cross-cut the man made, there was space for only three holes, so narrow had become the pay-streak and so close was he to the fountainhead of the golden stream he had been following for four days.
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