Source

Noun

 * 1) The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
 * 2) Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
 * 3) A reporter's informant.
 * 4)  Source code.

Derived terms

 * sourceless
 * source code
 * primary source
 * secondary source
 * tertiary source

Related terms

 * resource

Verb

 * 1)  to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource

Derived terms

 * sourcing
 * insourcing
 * outsourcing

Adjectives for Source
copious (pi) ; reliable; various (pi) ; authentic; abundant (pi); external; outside; delightful; usual; proximate; inexhaustible; scanty; respectable; distorted; vital; real; occult; festering; fruitful; paternal; worthwhile; known; classical; valuable; bounteous; recurrent; vulgar; artificial; full-fed; radiant; prolific; frequent; unrelated; continued; grand; editorial; important; shallow; true; inactive; miscellaneous; invisible ; authoritative.

Verbs for Source
attack—; borrow from—; determine—; dry up—; flow from—; emanate from—; exhaust— poison—; replenish from—; search for —; spring from—; stamp out—; strike at— tap—; trace to—; track down—; utilize —constitutes; —feeds; —supplies.

Thesaurus
adviser, ambition, announcer, annunciator, antecedent, aspiration, author, authority, authorship, basis, begetter, beginning, birthplace, bonanza, calling, cause, channel, commencement, communicant, communicator, conception, consideration, cornucopia, creator, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, 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, motive, mouthpiece, newsmonger, notifier, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, originator, outset, parent, paternity, press, principle, provenance, provenience, public relations officer, publisher, quarry, radical, radio, radix, reason, reporter, resource, rise, rising, riverhead, root, roots, rootstock, sake, score, source of supply, spokesman, spring, staple, start, starting, stem, stock, taproot, television, teller, tipster, tout, ulterior motive, vein, vocation, well, wellhead, wellspring, whence, witness

Etymology
< sours: <  sorse: < sors:, past participle of sordre:, sourdre: <   surgere:; see surge. Compare sourd

Pronunciation

 * or (US)
 * or (US)
 * (in some non-rhotic dialects)
 * (in some non-rhotic dialects)
 * (in some non-rhotic dialects)
 * (in some non-rhotic dialects)

Noun

 * Arabic:, مصادر
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: qaynaq
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 根源, 來源,  来源,
 * Danish: kilde, udspring
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fonto
 * Finnish:
 * French: source
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 源泉,
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: کانگه, سه‌رچاوه
 * Latvian: avots
 * Lithuanian: šaltinis
 * Luxembourgish: Quellen
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: soorce
 * Spanish: fuente
 * West Frisian: boarne


 * Armenian:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 源泉
 * Czech: zdroj
 * Dutch: bron
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: forrás
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: avots
 * Lithuanian: šaltinis
 * Russian: ,


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: bron
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: forráskód, forrás


 * Italian:, codice sorgente
 * Russian: исходный код,  исходник


 * : bron
 * : source
 * : מקור
 * : fonto
 * : sorgente (1), fonte  (2)
 * : fons


 * : zdroj, prameň
 * : origen
 * : sursă (1,2)
 * : källa (1,2)
 * : kaynak (1,2)
 * : shrotahs

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: beszerez


 * Italian: tirare fuori
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * cerous, 'course, course

Noun

 * 1) source, spring

Anagrams

 * coeurs, cœurs
 * coures
 * course, coursé
 * écrous