Scrabble & Words with friends points
- sources is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 9
- sources is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 9
- sources is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11
Definition of sources
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to (noun)
Examples
- he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation
Synonyms
- reference
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something (noun)
Synonyms
- author
- generator
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies (noun)
Synonyms
- reservoir
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being (noun)
Examples
- Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
Synonyms
- beginning
- origin
- root
- rootage
- anything that provides inspiration for later work (noun)
Synonyms
- germ
- seed
- a person who supplies information (noun)
Synonyms
- informant
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained (noun)
Examples
- 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
- She sourced a supply of carpet
- specify the origin of (verb)
Examples
- The writer carefully sourced her report
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system (noun)
Examples
- a heat source
- a source of carbon dioxide
See definition of sources in Merriam Webster