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• noun
A place, person, or thing from which something originates, develops, or can be obtained.
"Solar panels provide a clean and renewable source of energy for the entire facility."
A person, book, document, or record that provides information or evidence for research, journalism, or study.
"The historian verified the date by consulting several primary sources from the sixteenth century."
A spring, glacier, or upland point from which a river or stream begins to flow.
"Nineteenth-century explorers spent years mapping the remote highland source of the Nile."
• verb
To obtain or procure materials, goods, or components from a specific supplier or origin.
"The bakery sources all of its organic flour and dairy products from local family farms."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 14th century from Old French sourse ('a rising, beginning, or spring of water'), originally the feminine past participle of sourdre ('to rise, spring forth'), from Latin surgere ('to rise').