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fountainhead definition

fountain·head (-hed′)

noun

  1. a spring that is the source of a stream
  2. the original or main source of anything

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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