Definition of Source

n.1.The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
2.The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
3.That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.
- Locke.
The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
- Pope.


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