source

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 112.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

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

2. noun Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

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

3. noun A reporter's informant.
4. noun Source code.
5. noun The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
6. noun A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
7. noun The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
8. verb To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.

Similar words

beginning origin reference author informant generator channel germ seed root

Often followed by

of for and is in code to material from

Word family

sourced sourceless sources sourcing