Source

English

Noun

Source (plural Sources)

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. (computing) Source code.

Derived terms

• sourceless
• source code
• primary source
• secondary source
• tertiary source

Related terms

• resource

Verb

Source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)

1. (chiefly US) to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource

Derived terms

• (mainly US): sourcing
• (mainly US): insourcing
• (mainly US): 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

< Middle English sours < Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”) < sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre < Latin surgere (“to rise”); see surge. Compare sourd

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɔɹs/ or IPA: /soʊɹs/ (US)
• SAMPA: /sOr\s/ or SAMPA: /soUr\s/ (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)s
• Homophone: sauce (in some non-rhotic dialects)

Translations

Noun

person, place or thing from which something comes or is acquired

Arabic: مصدر (ar) (maSdar) m., مصادر (ar) (maSaadir) pl. Armenian: աղբյուր (hy) (aġbyur) Azeri: qaynaq (az) Chinese: Mandarin: 根源 (cmn) (gēnyuán), 來源 (cmn), 来源 (cmn) (láiyuán), 本源 (cmn) (běnyuán) Danish: kilde (da) c., udspring (da) n. Dutch: bron (nl) f. Esperanto: fonto (eo) Finnish: lähde (fi) French: source (fr) German: Quelle (de) f., Ursprung (de) m. Greek: πηγή (el) (pigí) f. Hungarian: forrás (hu), eredet (hu) Irish: foinse (ga) f.

Italian: fonte (it) Japanese: 源泉 (ja) (げんせん, gensen), 本源 (ja) (ほんげん, hongen) Kurdish: Sorani: کانگه (ku) (kAnga), سه‌رچاوه (ku) (sarchAwa) Latvian: avots (lv) m. Lithuanian: šaltinis (lt) m. Luxembourgish: Quellen (lb) Polish: źródło (pl) n. Portuguese: origem (pt) f., fonte (pt) f. Russian: источник (ru) (istóčnik) m., исток (ru) (istók) m., ключ (ru) (ključ) m. Scots: soorce Spanish: fuente (es) m. West Frisian: boarne (fy) n.

spring; fountainhead; collection of water

Armenian: աղբյուր (hy) (aġbyur), ակ (hy) (ak), ակունք (hy) (akunk’) Chinese: Mandarin: 源泉 (cmn) (yuánquán) Czech: zdroj (cs) m. Dutch: bron (nl) c. Esperanto: fonto (eo) French: source (fr) f. Greek: πηγή (el) (pigí) f.

Hungarian: forrás (hu) Irish: foinse (ga) f. Italian: sorgente (it) f., fonte (it) f. Japanese: 泉 (ja) (いずみ, izumi) Latvian: avots (lv) m. Lithuanian: šaltinis (lt) m. Russian: источник (ru) (istóčnik) m., ключ (ru) (ključ) m.

reporter's informant

Arabic: مَصْدَر (ar) (masDar) m. Armenian: աղբյուր (hy) (aġbyur) Czech: zdroj (cs) m. Danish: kilde (da) c. Dutch: bron (nl) c. Finnish: lähde (fi) French: source (fr) f.

German: Quelle (de) f. Greek: πηγή (el) (pigí) f. Hungarian: forrás (hu) Italian: fonte (it) f. Polish: źródło (pl) n. Portuguese: fonte (pt) f. Russian: источник (ru) (istóčnik) m.

(computing) source code

Greek: πηγαίος κώδικας (el) (pigéos kódikas) m. Hungarian: forráskód (hu), (informally) forrás (hu)

Italian: sorgente (it) m., codice sorgente (it) m. Russian: исходный код (ru), (infomal) исходник (ru)

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Dutch: bron French: source Hebrew: מקור m. Ido: fonto Italian: sorgente f. (1), fonte f. (2) Latin: fons m.

Slovak: zdroj m., prameň m. Spanish: origen Romanian: sursă (1,2) Swedish: källa c. (1,2) Turkish: kaynak (1,2) Malayalam: shrotahs

See also

• target

Verb

(mainly US) to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource

Finnish: hankkia (fi) German: belegen (de), beziehen (de) Hungarian: beszerez (hu)

Italian: tirare fuori (it) Spanish: fuente (es) f.

External links

• Source in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Source in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• cerous, 'course, course

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French

Noun

Source f. (plural Sources)

1. source, spring

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Anagrams

• coeurs, cœurs
• coures
• course, coursé
• écrous