fountainhead
noun
uk/ˈfaʊn.tɪn.hed/us/ˈfaʊn.tən.hed/fountainheadnoun(CAUSE)
[Cusually singular]formal
a thing,person, orplacewhere something comes from orbegins, or that is thecauseof something:
源头，源泉；根源，本源TheweeklyjournalNationalReview isrecognizedas theintellectualfountainheadofmodernconservatism.《国家评论》周刊被公认为现代保守主义的思想源泉。。
Together, thesewriterstransformedthesmallvillageinto a fountainheadofcreativeandintellectualachievement.这些作家共同努力把这个小村庄变成了创造性和智力成就的源泉。
He was thecreativefountainhead at theagencyfor 14years.14年来，他一直是公司的创意源泉。
Synonym
source
- Theincidentconfirmedthe museum'sreputationas a fountainhead ofartisticliberalismin the era's "culturewars."
- He is a fountainhead ofinnovationand newideas.
- One of the fountainheads of themoderntraveldocumentarywas Robert Flaherty.
- It has beensuggestedthat Longfellow aspired to be thepoeticfountainhead forAmericathat Chaucer had been forEngland.
- Sheagreesthatracismiswidespreadinmodernsocietyand sets out what shebelievesto beitsmainfountainheads.
Origins and sources
- bases
- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc.idiom
- beginning
- birth
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- emanate from/throughsomething/someone
- fount
- gateway drug
- genesis
- hail
- hail fromsomewhere
- paternity
- provenance
- recipe
- root
- seed
- son
- source
fountainheadnoun(STATUE)
[C]
adecorativeobjectmade ofstone,metal, etc. with asmallopeningthatwatercomes out of aspartof afountain(= adecorativestreamofwaterin agarden,lake, etc.):
装饰喷泉Theyardisfullofhugeblueandgreenglazedpots,tiles,plaquesanddecorativefountainheads.院子里摆满了巨大的蓝绿色釉盆、瓷砖、牌匾和装饰性的喷泉。
- Theworksexhibitedincludeabronzeputto fountainhead by Donatello.
- Thecockerelisthoughtto have been one of 12 fountainheads around amarblebasinat thepalaceof Madina al-Zahra, near Cordoba.
- At thefarend of thehall,surroundedbygarlandedattendants, aplumpwomansaton herthrone, like a fountainhead.
Sculpture
- bas-relief
- bust
- carve
- carving
- cherub
- cupid
- hew
- installation
- kore
- maquette
- mould
- mouldable
- sculpt
- sculptor
- sculptural
- sculpture
- sculptured
- sphinx
- torso
- waxwork
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