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fountainhead

[ foun-tn-hed ]

noun

  1. a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head heads or source of a stream.
  2. a chief source of anything:

    a fountainhead of information.



fountainhead

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noun

  1. a spring that is the source of a stream
  2. a principal or original source
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of fountainhead1

First recorded in 1575–85; fountain + head
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Though he balked his first fiddle contest, he kept trying, even joining Monroe, the bluegrass fountainhead, onstage at age 9.

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The fountainhead of American bohemia, Greenwich Village has always departed from the straight and narrow.

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The Endless, anthropomorphized personifications of human ideas, beliefs and states of being, already serves as a fountainhead of clever metaphorical narratives.

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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.

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Surveyors involved in the Varanasi case said they found a large relic of the Hindu god Shiva inside the Gyanvapsi mosque, but Muslim groups said that a fountainhead was being misrepresented to stir religious tension.

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