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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birthplace |
| Synonyms: | derivation, home, inception, origin, source |
| Main Entry: | fountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | source, often of liquid |
| Synonyms: | bubbler, cause, font, fount, geyser, gush, inception, inspiration, jet, lode, mainspring, mine, origin, play, provenance, provenience, pump, reservoir, root, spout, spray, spring, stream, well, wellhead, wellspring |
| Main Entry: | genesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, creation |
| Synonyms: | alpha, birth, commencement, dawn, dawning, engendering, formation, generation, inception, opening, origin, outset, propagation, provenance, provenience, root, source, start |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale, finish |
Example Sentences
- As the provenance of antiquities and artworks is questioned, so is the provenance of dealers themselves.
- But the provenance of the cells is the source of their controversy.
- The artifact's lack of provenance had always been a red flag to many scholars.
| Main Entry: | inception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | birth, commencement, dawn, derivation, fountain, inauguration, initiation, kickoff, origin, outset, provenance, provenience, rise, root, source, start, well, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | origin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause, basis |
| Synonyms: | agent, ancestor, ancestry, antecedent, author, base, causality, causation, connection, creator, derivation, determinant, egg, element, embryo, fountain, generator, germ, horse's mouth, impulse, inception, inducement, influence, inspiration, mainspring, motive, nucleus, occasion, parent, parentage, principle, producer, progenitor, provenance, provenience, root, roots, seed, source, spring, stock, well, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | consequence, destiny, effect, goal, outcome, outgrowth, result |
| Main Entry: | root |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base, core |
| Synonyms: | basis, bedrock, beginnings, bottom, cause, center, crux, derivation, essence, essentiality, footing, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, fundamental, germ, ground, groundwork, heart, inception, infrastructure, mainspring, marrow, motive, nub, nucleus, occasion, origin, pith, provenance, provenience, quick, quintessence, radicle, radix, reason, rhizome, rock bottom, seat, seed, soul, source, starting point, stem, stuff, substance, substratum, tuber, underpinning, well |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Antonyms: | derivation, derivative, sprout |
| Main Entry: | source |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; point of supply |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, result |
| Main Entry: | fount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | beginning, derivation, fountain, fountainhead, mine, provenance, provenience, root, source, spring, well, wellspring |
| Main Entry: | provenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | agent, ancestor, ancestry, antecedent, author, base, beginning, causality, causation, connection, creator, derivation, determinant, egg, element, embryo, fount, fountain, fountainhead, generator, germ, horse's mouth, impulse, inception, inducement, influence, inspiration, mainspring, mother, motive, nucleus, occasion, parent, parentage, principle, producer, progenitor, provenance, root, roots, rootstock, seed, source, spring*, stock, well, wellspring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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