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fountainhead

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foun⋅tain⋅head

[foun-tn-hed]
–noun
1. a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
2. a chief source of anything: a fountainhead of information.

Origin:
1575–85; fountain + head
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foun·tain·head   (foun'tən-hěd')   
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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