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fountainhead
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fountain-head , "spring from which a stream flows," 1580s, from fountain + head (n.). Figurative use is from c.1600.
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 3844 Housing Units (2000): 1621 Land area (2000): 3.816091 sq. miles (9.883629 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.816091 sq. miles (9.883629 sq. km) FIPS code: 29712 Located within: Maryland ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
fountainhead \fountainhead\ n. an abundant source. Syn: well, wellspring. the source of water from which a stream arises. Syn: headspring, head.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fountainhead in Jackson, Mississippi , also known as J. Willis Hughes House , is a Usonian house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright . There are only three other homes in Mississippi designed by Wright, all of which are in Ocean Springs . The house ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Aunt Tossie was the fountainhead of both, the medium through which Dada might be approached for favours. ▪ Keynes, as we shall see presently, was on his way to being the new fountainhead of conventional wisdom.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a spring that is the source of a river 2 an abundant source of knowledge, etc.
Usage examples of fountainhead.
I beseech Thee, by Him Who is the Fountainhead of Thy Revelation and the Dayspring of Thy signs, to make my heart to be a receptacle of Thy love and of remembrance of Thee.
Their eyes have, at all times, been bent upon the Dayspring of Thy loving-kindness, and their faces set towards the Fountainhead of Thine inspiration.
The process requires a high sense of self, in the best form that Ayn Rand's work suggests (in her works, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged), so that there are no dependencies on others, on egotism, on self deprecations, on anger, et al.
In science, analogies can be fountainheads of new ideas precisely because they use old, true ones in new ways.
The encyclical assumes that the unnamed, unrecognized, unacknowledged fountainheads of wealth would somehow continue to function—and proceeds to set up conditions of existence which would make their functioning impossible.
The ocean tossed, ripped into spume, and waves crashed against the shore, hurling fountainheads of spray.
Or do I dream, and is Archonis still as he sees it: the brilliant beating heart of the cities of the world, the fountainhead of the infinite sun of Golden rule?
Belle Morte was the fountainhead, le sourdre de sang of Jean-Claude and Asher's bloodline.