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The earliest known use of the noun fountainhead is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for fountainhead is from 1585, in a translation by Thomas Washington.
The meaning of FOUNTAINHEAD is a spring that is the source of a stream. How to use fountainhead in a sentence. Did you know?
a decorative object made of stone, metal, etc. with a small opening that water comes out of as part of a fountain (= a decorative stream of water in a garden, lake, etc.): The yard is full of huge blue and green glazed pots, tiles, plaques and decorative fountainheads. More examples.
Definition of fountainhead noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
fountainhead in American English. (ˈfauntnˌhed) noun. 1. a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream. 2. a chief source of anything. a fountainhead of information. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
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fountainhead. 1 ENTRIES FOUND: fountainhead (noun) fountainhead / ˈ faʊntn̩ˌhɛd/ noun. plural fountainheads. Britannica Dictionary definition of FOUNTAINHEAD. [count] literary. : the origin or source of something. the fountainhead of the faith.
