Source

Quick meaning: Source is a noun meaning The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

Meaning

The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

More Meanings

1. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
2. A reporter's informant.
3. (computing) Source code.
4. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
5. (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
6. (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
7. To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.

Example Sentences

Coordinate term: target

The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.

The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.

More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

Word Forms

• sources
• sourcing
• sourced

Synonyms for source

Depending on context, synonyms include wellspring, parentage, fund, channel, reference, root.

Antonyms for source

Common opposites include sink.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beginning, origin, reference, author, informant, generator.

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