Wellspring definition

wĕlsprĭng
wellsprings
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A source of abundant and continual supply.

A wellspring of knowledge.

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The source of water for a stream, spring or well; a fountainhead; a wellhead.
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A perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or emanation; resource.
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The source of a stream or spring.
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A source.

A wellspring of ideas.

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The source of a stream, spring, etc.; fountainhead.
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Noun

Singular:
wellspring
Plural:
wellsprings

Origin of wellspring

  • From Middle English wellespring, from Old English wiellspring, wiellÄ¡espring (“spring, fount, fountain"), corresponding to well +"Ž spring. More at well, spring.

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Wellspring Sentence Examples

  • It should alert us all to the fact that both have a common wellspring in hatred of the other.

  • If you follow it into the rocks, you will find the wellspring of the death which will not die.

  • Understand that and you have a wellspring of joy in your heart.

  • Ceridwen's inspiration comes From below into above it runs A wellspring of ideas flows From the spirit of this land it goes.

  • This is the very wellspring of the upward progress of evolution.

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