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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fountainhead
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fountainhead

fountainhead \fountainhead\ n.

  1. an abundant source.

    Syn: well, wellspring.

  2. the source of water from which a stream arises.

    Syn: headspring, head.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fountainhead

also fountain-head, "spring from which a stream flows," 1580s, from fountain + head (n.). Figurative use is from c.1600.

Wiktionary
fountainhead

n. 1 a spring that is the source of a river 2 an abundant source of knowledge, etc.

WordNet
fountainhead

  1. n. an abundant source; "she was a well of information" [syn: well, wellspring]

  2. the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" [syn: headspring, head]

Gazetteer
Fountainhead-Orchard Hills, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
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 (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.682933 N, 77.716526 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fountainhead-Orchard Hills, MD
Fountainhead-Orchard Hills
Fountainhead, MD
Fountainhead
Wikipedia
Fountainhead (Jackson, Mississippi)

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 was built in 1950 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Hughes House has been a private residence since it was originally built and has never been open to the public. It is owned by Jackson architect Robert Parker Adams.

Fountainhead (disambiguation)

Fountainhead may refer to:

  • A river source

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.