Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

fountainhead

[faun-tn-hed] / ˈfaʊn tnˌhɛd /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Mr. Brady “couldn’t see it then,” Mr. Anderson writes, “but this reframing would become the foundation of all his future triumphs . . . and the fountainhead of all his greatest trials.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The fountainhead of American bohemia, Greenwich Village has always departed from the straight and narrow.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

Muslims attached to the Gyanvapi mosque said the court-appointed surveyors had mistaken a fountainhead in the water tank as a Hindu idol and motifs were flowers embedded in Persian design.

From Reuters ● May 20, 2022

That’s when a theater kid from Compton, Calif., flew some 3,000 miles from home to begin his freshman year at “The Mecca,” what Howard students call the historically Black fountainhead of talent.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022

The only fountainhead which had once been near and which had once sung loudly within him, now murmured softly in the distance.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse


Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com