source
Forms
- Plural
- sources
- present (v1)
- source
- past (v2)
- sourced
- past participle (v3)
- sourced
- present participle
- sourcing
- 3rd person singular
- sources
Definitions
1.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.
- 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.
2.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.A reporter's informant.
4.Source code.
1.To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
2.To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #612
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-.