Definition of source

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• source is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 8
• source is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 8
• source is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 10

Definition of source

• a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to (noun)

  Examples

  1. he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation

  Synonyms

  1. reference
• someone who originates or causes or initiates something (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. author
  2. generator
• anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. reservoir
• the place where something begins, where it springs into being (noun)

  Examples

  1. Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River

  Synonyms

  1. beginning
  2. origin
  3. root
  4. rootage
• anything that provides inspiration for later work (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. germ
  2. seed
• a person who supplies information (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. informant
• a document (or organization) from which information is obtained (noun)

  Examples

  1. the reporter had two sources for the story
• a facility where something is available (noun)
• get (a product) from another country or business (verb)

  Examples

  1. She sourced a supply of carpet
• specify the origin of (verb)

  Examples

  1. The writer carefully sourced her report
• (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system (noun)

  Examples

  1. a heat source
  2. a source of carbon dioxide

See definition of source in Merriam Webster