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English
Etymology
< Middle English sours < Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”) < sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre < Latin surgere (“to rise”); see surge. Compare sourd
Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɔɹs/ or IPA: /soʊɹs/ (US)
- SAMPA: /sOr\s/ or SAMPA: /soUr\s/ (US)
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)s
Homophones
- sauce (in some non-rhotic dialects)
Noun
source (plural sources)
- The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- A reporter's informant.
- (computing) Source code.
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Verb
to source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)
Derived terms
- (mainly US): sourcing
- (mainly US): insourcing
- (mainly US): outsourcing
Translations
(mainly US) to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource
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External links
- source in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- source in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Noun
source f. (plural sources)
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