Usually means: Origin or source of something.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word fountainhead:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. fountainhead: Merriam-Webster
  2. fountainhead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fountainhead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fountainhead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fountainhead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fountainhead, fountainhead: Wordnik
  7. fountainhead: Wiktionary
  8. fountainhead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fountainhead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fountainhead: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fountainhead: Dictionary.com
  12. Fountainhead (album), Fountainhead (disambiguation), Fountainhead (yacht), Fountainhead, The Fountainhead (band), The Fountainhead (film), The Fountainhead (play), The Fountainhead, The fountainhead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. fountainhead: Rhymezone
  14. fountainhead: FreeDictionary.org
  15. fountainhead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. fountainhead: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. fountainhead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Fountainhead, fountainhead: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Fountainhead, fountainhead: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (literally) A spring that is the source of a river.
noun:  (figuratively) An abundant source of knowledge, etc.

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