Wellspring

Definitions: Wellspring

Wellspring

Noun

1. The source of water for a well.

2. An abundant source; "she was a well of information".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wellspring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Wellspring

Store

Noun: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.

Books

• Capturing Full-Trend Profits in the Commodity Futures Markets: Maximizing Reward and Minimizing Risk with the Wellspring System (reference)

• The Salzdorf Wellspring (reference)

• The Wellspring (Harlequin American Romance, No 99) (reference)

• Wellspring (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Creativity: Open the Wellspring (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

burim (cradle, efflux, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, mother, origin, parent, principle, provenance, provenience, radix, rill, root, source, spring, Springhead, wellhead). (various references)

Bulgarian 

извор (font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, head, headspring, lymph, origin, rise, seepage, source, spring, well, wellhead). (various references)

Chinese 

泉源 (Wellhead). (various references)

Czech

pramen (fountain, head, headspring, source, spring, strand, streak, well). (various references)

German

Quelle (fount, fountain, headwaters, origin, source, sources, sourse, spring, well). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקור מים חיים, מקור לא אכזב, מקור (fount, fountain, germ, nib, origin, parent, resource, resources, root, seed, source, well). (various references)

Italian

sorgente (fount, fountain, fountainhead, rising, source, spring). (various references)

Pig Latin

ellspringway

Portuguese

ponto de partida (base, basis, bottom line, datum, origin, source), origem (authorship, birth, extractive, fount, fountain, genesis, germ, hand, headquarters, home, incipient, lineage, mint, mother, origin, original, origination, parental, paternity leave, principle, radix, root, source, start), nascente (draw well, fount, fountain, headspring, incipient, nastily, Orient, orientate, source, spring, Springhead, well), manancial (draw well, fountain, mint, source, spring, well), fonte de informações (quarry, source), fonte (authorship, draw well, font, fount, fountain, fresh, hand, head, headstone, mint, mother, origination, radix, root, source, spring, supply, temple, well). (various references)

Romanian

izvor nesecat de. (various references)

Russian 

источник (derivation, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, grassroots, headspring, mine, mint, origin, parent, progenitor, provenance, radix, source, sources, spring, springhead, well, wellhead, well-head). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvor (derivation, fount, rise, source, spring, springhead, well, wellhead). (various references)

Spanish

manantial (fount, fountain, origin, source, spring, well), fuente (basin, bowl, chalybeate, deodorant, dish, font, fount, fountain, headpiece, pelvis, platter, pool, quarter, source, spring, Springhead, well). (various references)

Turkish

memba (font, fount, fountain, mine, roots, source, spring), kaynak (authorship, basis, beginning, birth, bottom, chapter and verse, context, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, fund, genesis, grass roots, headspring, inquiries, origin, parent, paternity, principle, provenance, quarter, reserve, resource, rise, root, root stock, roots, seeds, source, source material, source of supply, spore, spring, weld, welding, well, wellhead, womb), köken (authorship, basis, bedrock, beginning, birth, derivation, descent, etymon, extraction, genesis, lineage, origin, origination, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, radical, root, seeds, spore, spring, wellhead, womb). (various references)

Ukranian 

струмок (arroyo, bourn, dribble, effluent, nullah, nymph, rivulet, streamlet, wash, watercourse), джерело (authorship, beginning, channel, cradle, derivation, fount, fountain-head, headspring, lymph, origin, parent, paternity, principle, progenitor, quarry, radix, source, spring, well, whence). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "wellspring": wellsprings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: spelling, swelling.

-3 letters: gillers, grilles, lingers, pilsner, pingers, selling, slewing, slinger, spewing, spiller, springe, swiller, swinger, swingle, welling, willers, wingers.

-4 letters: genips, giller, grille, grills, grilse, gripes, ingles, ligers, liners, linger, lisper, pensil, perils, pinger, pliers, prills, reigns, renigs, repins, resign, rewins, rilles, ripens, sering, sewing, signer, siller, singer, single, sniper, spinel, spline.

+1 letter: wellsprings.

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