source

source is on the Academic Word List.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /sɔrs/, SAMPA: /sOr\s/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /soʊrs/, SAMPA: /soUr\s/

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• Homophone: sauce

Verb

Plain form source

Third-person singular sources

Past tense sourced

Past participle sourced

Present participle sourcing

1. If you source something, then you obtain or receive it.

Noun

Singular source

Plural sources

Source is on the Academic Vocabulary List.

1. The source of some material, an idea, a product, etc. is the place it came from originally.
   • Antonym: target

   XYZ company can't supply these parts anymore, so we need to find a new source.

   Church sources said four people were injured and 100 to 200 were taken away by the police.

   The paper comes primarily from British sources.

   CO₂ is the main source of global warming.

Related words

• outsource