fountainhead | meaning of fountainhead in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

fountainhead

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfountainheadfoun‧tain‧head /ˈfaʊntənhed $ ˈfaʊntn-/ noun [singular] COME FROM/ORIGINATEthe origin of something SYN sourceExamples from the Corpusfountainhead• Keynes, as we shall see presently, was on his way to being the new fountainhead of conventional wisdom.

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