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well·spring

(wĕl′sprĭng′)

1. The source of a stream or spring.

2. A source: a wellspring of ideas.

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wellspring

(ˈwɛlˌsprɪŋ)

1. (Physical Geography) the source of a spring or stream; fountainhead

2. a source of continual or abundant supply

[Old English welspryng, wylspring; see well², spring]

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well•spring

(ˈwɛlˌsprɪŋ)

n.

1. the head or source of a spring, stream, river, or the like; fountainhead.

2. a continuous, seemingly inexhaustible source or supply of something: a wellspring of affection.

[before 900]

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Noun	1.	wellspring - the source of water for a well wellhead origin, source, root, rootage, beginning - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
	2.	wellspring - an abundant source; "she was a well of information" fountainhead, well source - a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"

wellspring

noun

1. fountainhead, source, origin, fount, wellhead Nature has always been the wellspring of her art.

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wellspring

[ˈwelˌsprɪŋ] N (fig) → fuente f

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