Word Meanings - SOURCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

OF. sors, p.p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See 1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air,

Additional info about word: SOURCE

OF. sors, p.p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See 1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two. Chaucer. 2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain. Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing and his sours. Chaucer. Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile. Addison. 3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself. Locke. The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense. Pope. Syn. -- See Origin.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOURCE)

• Beginning
• Commencement
• start
• origin
• rise
• initiation
• preparation
• preface
• prelude
• inauguration
• inception
• threshold
• opening
• source
• outset
• foundation
• Birth
• Parentage
• extraction
• nativity
• family
• race
• lineage
• nobility
• Cause
• Source
• producer
• agent
• creator
• purpose
• inducement
• reason
• account
• principle
• motive
• object
• suit
• action
• Derivation
• Origin
• descent
• beginning
• cause
• etymology
• root
• spring
• analysis
• Head
• Top
• crown
• chief
• leader
• ruler
• mind
• section
• division
• topic
• gathering
• culmination
• crisis
• leadership
• guide
• commander
• acme
• summit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SOURCE)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Settle
• alight
• land
• drop
• arrive
• issue
• eventuate
• end
• terminate
• debouch
• disembogue

Related words: (words related to SOURCE)

• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.