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Plural of source

regular plural

The plural of source is sources.

Forms of source

Singularsource /sɔːs/
Pluralsources /ˈsɔːsɪz/
Countablecountable

Sources in a sentence

  • It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
  • The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
  • Thucydides wrote a history of the Peleponnesian War that uses different sources than Herodotus' work.From the entry history
  • This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.From the entry pastiche
  • I just got an email invitation to a webinar on the value of primary sources.From the entry webinar

Meaning of source

  1. noun The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
  2. noun Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
  3. noun A reporter's informant.

Full definition of source

Questions about the plural of source

What is the plural of source?
The plural of source is sources.
Is source countable?
Source is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: source (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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