fountainhead
fountainhead
nounDefinition of FOUNTAINHEAD
1
a point or place at which something is invented or provided <historically, California has served as the fountainhead of that eclectic group of self-actualization movements known as the New Age>
Related Words beginning, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold; baseline, first base, ground zero, square one
2
the source from which something grows or develops <a collection of lyrical ballads that became the fountainhead of a literary revolution>
Related Words font, fountain, spring, well, wellhead, wellspring; beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, incipiency, launch, morning, onset, outset, start, threshold; creation, inauguration, origination
