SOURCE

The place where something begins, where it springs into being

Example: "The italian beginning of the renaissance"

• beginning  13
• origin  7
• root  4
• rootage  8

• point  7

• derivation  14
• spring  9
• fountainhead  19
• head  8
• • headspring  17
  • headwater  16
  • wellhead  15
  • wellspring  16
  • jumping-off place
  • point of departure
  • birthplace  19
  • cradle  9
  • place of origin
  • provenance  17
  • provenience  18
  • home  9
  • point source
  • trail head
  • trailhead  13
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A document (or organization) from which information is obtained

Example: "The reporter had two sources for the story"

• document  13
• papers  10
• written document

• source materials
• fountainhead  19
• well  7
• wellspring  16

Anything that provides inspiration for later work

• germ  7
• seed  5

• inspiration  13

• taproot  9
• muse  6

A facility where something is available

• facility  16
• installation  12

• golconda  12
• gold mine
• goldmine

A person who supplies information

• informant  14

• communicator  20

• betrayer  13
• blabber  13
• informer  13
• rat  3
• • squealer  17
  • leaker  10
  • passive source
  • whistle-blower
  • whistleblower
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Someone who originates or causes or initiates something

Example: "He was the generator of several complaints"

• author  9
• generator  10

• maker  11
• shaper  11

• coiner  8

(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system

Example: "A heat source"

• action  8
• activity  16
• natural action
• natural process

• origin  7

• sink  8

Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

Example: "An infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"

• reservoir  12

A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

Example: "He carried an armful of references back to his desk"

• reference  14