Meaning

7 senses

  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.

    Quelle, Ursprung

    исто́чникistóčnik, исто́кistók, ключključ

    джерело́džereló, крини́цяkrynýcja

    a person who supplies information

  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.

    Quelle

    исто́чникistóčnik, ключključ, родни́кrodník

    джерело́džereló, крини́цяkrynýcja

  3. A reporter's informant.

    Quelle

    исто́чникistóčnik

  4. Source code.

  5. The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

  6. A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.

  7. The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.

    Coordinate term: target

Examples

617 sentences

  1. Do you think your sources are reliable?

    Ви думаєте, ваші джерела надійні? — Ahha

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  2. Solar energy is a new source of energy.

    Сонячна енергія — це нове джерело енергії. — deniko

    ruСолнечная энергия — это новый источник энергии. — afyodor

    deSolarenergie ist eine neue Energiequelle. — MUIRIEL

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  3. Do you think that your sources are reliable?

    Ви важаєте, що ваші джерела надійні? — Ahha

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  4. What's your favorite open source game?

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  5. What's your favorite open source software?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired:
Русский
By meaning 2
the person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired:
spring etc.:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired:

Origin

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from

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-. Doublet of surge.

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Forms

plural: sources
Singularsource
Pluralsources

regular

Synonyms

15 synonyms
fundB1storehousewellspringparentage
Close in meaning
  • anything that provides inspiration for later work:seedgerm
  • a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to:reference
  • anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies:reservoir
  • someone who originates or causes or initiates something:generatorauthor
  • a person who supplies information:informant
  • the place where something begins, where it springs into being:beginningoriginrootrootage

Antonyms

1 antonyms
graph theory:sinkA2

Word family

46 related words
RelatedresourceB1targetA2
Derivedbacksourcebiosourcebroken sourceclosed sourceclosed-sourceeigensourceenergy sourcee-sourceinner sourceinsourceintersourcelife-sourcelight sourcemicrosourcemultisourcenanosourceopen-sourceopen sourceorphan sourcepaleosourcepoint sourcepower sourcequasi-stellar radio-sourceradio source

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
soupA1sourB1sourdoughsourpusssouthA2
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