Usually means: Origin or starting point of something.
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We found 67 dictionaries that define the word source:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. source: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. source: Merriam-Webster
  3. source: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. source: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. source: Collins English Dictionary
  6. source: Vocabulary.com
  7. Source, source: Wordnik
  8. source: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. source: Wiktionary
  10. source: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. source: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. source: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. source: Dictionary.com
  14. source: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. source: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Source (Charmed), Source (comics), Source (command), Source (disambiguation), Source (engine), Source (game engine), Source (journalism), Source (magazine), Source (programming language), Source (record label), Source (river), Source (river or stream), Source, The Source (Ayreon album), The Source (Charmed), The Source (Dizzy Gillespie album), The Source (Etrog), The Source (Grandmaster Flash album), The Source (Ingres), The Source (Jackie McLean album), The Source (Kendrick Scott album), The Source (Tony Allen album), The Source (band), The Source (comics), The Source (disambiguation), The Source (magazine), The Source (musician), The Source (network), The Source (novel), The Source (online service), The Source (oratorio), The Source (retailer), The Source (service), The Source, The source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Source: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. source: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. source: Rhymezone
  20. Source, source (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. source: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. source: FreeDictionary.org
  23. source: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. source: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. source: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  3. Source: Lexicon of Linguistics
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. source: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. source: Glossary of research economics
  6. Source (disambiguation), The Source, source: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. source: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. source: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Source (disambiguation), Source (river or stream), The Source, source: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Source (disambiguation), The Source, source: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. source: Genealogy Glossary
  2. SOURCE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Source: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Source: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. source, source, source, source, source, source: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. source: Urban Dictionary

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. source: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. source: Electronics
  3. Source: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  4. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  5. source: Lighting Design Glossary
  6. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  7. Source: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  8. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  9. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See sourced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
noun:  Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
noun:  A reporter's informant.
noun:  (computing) Source code.
noun:  (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
noun:  (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
noun:  (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
verb:  To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
verb:  (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

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