source (n.)
- adviser
- ambition
- announcer
- annunciator
- antecedent
- aspiration
- author
- authority
- authorship
- basis
- begetter
- beginning
- birthplace
- bonanza
- calling
- cause
- channel
- commencement
- communicant
- communicator
- conception
- consideration
- cornucopia
- creator
- dawn
- dawning
- derivation
- determinant
- documentation
- font
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- genesis
- goal
- gossipmonger
- grapevine
- ground
- head
- headstream
- headwater
- ideal
- inception
- informant
- informer
- inspiration
- intention
- interviewee
- lode
- lodestar
- mainspring
- matter
- mine
- monitor
- mother
- motive
- mouthpiece
- newsmonger
- onset
- opening
- origin
- original
- origination
- originator
- outset
- parent
- paternity
- press
- principle
- provenance
- provenience
- publisher
- quarry
- radical
- radio
- radix
- reason
- reporter
- resource
- rise
- rising
- root
- roots
- rootstock
- sake
- score
- spokesman
- spring
- staple
- start
- starting
- stem
- stock
- taproot
- television
- teller
- tipster
- tout
- vein
- vocation
- well
- wellhead
- wellspring
- witness
source (v.)
source (adj.)
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.
Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
