Source

Definition of Source

n.1.The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours
Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . .
Maken their sours to Goddes ears two.
- Chaucer.
2.The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
Where as the Poo out of a welle small
Taketh his firste springing and his sours.
- Chaucer.
Kings that rule
Behind the hidden sources of the Nile.
- Addison.
3.That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.
- Locke.
The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
- Pope.

Related Words

adviser, ambition, announcer, annunciator, antecedent, aspiration, author, authority, authorship, basis, begetter, beginning, birthplace, bonanza, calling, channel, commencement, communicant, communicator, conception, consideration, cornucopia, creator, dawn, dawning, derivation, documentation, enlightener, expert witness, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, genesis, goal, gold mine, gossipmonger, grapevine, grass roots, ground, guiding light, guiding star, head, headstream, headwater, headwaters, ideal, inception, informant, information center, information medium, informer, inspiration, intention, interviewee, lode, lodestar, mainspring, matter, mine, monitor, mother, mouthpiece, newsmonger, notifier, onset, opening, original, origination, originator, outset, parent, paternity, press, provenance, provenience, public relations officer, publisher, quarry, radical, radio, radix, reporter, resource, rise, rising, riverhead, root, roots, rootstock, sake, score, source of supply, spokesman, staple, starting, stem, stock, taproot, television, teller, tipster, tout, ulterior motive, vein, vocation, well, wellhead, wellspring, whence, witness
Word:

Browse

Sounding-board
Soundless
Soundly
Soundness
Soune
Sounst
Soup
Soup kitchen
Soup ticket
Soupcon
Soupe-maigre
Souple
Soupy
Sour
Sour dock
Sour gourd
Sour grapes
Sour gum
Sour plum
Sour tupelo
-Source-
Sourcrout
Sourde
Souring
Sourish
Sourkrout
Sourly
Sourness
Sours
Soursop
Sourwood
Sous
Souse
Souslik
Sout
Soutache
Soutage
Soutane
Souter
Souterly
Souterrain
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

© 2009 Interapple, Inc. Cover