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FOUNTAINHEAD Meaning: "spring from which a stream flows," 1580s, from fountain + head (n.). Figurative use is from c. 1600. See definitions of fountainhead.

Definition of FOUNTAINHEAD (noun): the origin of something

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fountainhead: A spring that is the source or head of a stream. Since that day, more than forty years ago, Greenspan has become the figurehead (not the "fountainhead" - figurehead) for a new form of "establishment radicalism," a white-collar extremism which that has hijacked American economic policy for the last thirty years.