English dictionary
source
nounPronunciation
sɔɹs
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a facility where something is available
noun
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
noun
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
noun
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
noun
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
noun
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
noun
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
noun
- a person who supplies information
noun
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
verb
- specify the origin of
verb
- get (a product) from another country or business
Example sentences
the reporter had two sources for the story
he carried an armful of references back to his desk
he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation
the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
communism's Russian root
an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival
he was the generator of several complaints
a heat source
a source of carbon dioxide
The writer carefully sourced her report
She sourced a supply of carpet
They are sourcing from smaller companies