wellspring
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈwɛlˌsprɪŋ/
:
fuente
- Teachers can be a wellspring of knowledge and inspiration for their students.
- a wellspring of support
- became the wellspring
- tapped into a wellspring
Movement has unlocked a wellspring of confidence.
- Movement has unlocked a wellspring of confidence.
- Thank you for being a wellspring that's bringing life to our society.
- Yeah, they are an awful burden to bear, but they are also a wellspring of humility.
- You'll see what you think, but the wellspring of it is definitely fright.
- He says, you know, it's it's often the fountain of or the wellspring of literacy.
- So are the wellspring of life, or at least the train track splits of where we're going to end up.
Examples
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The wellspring of her creativity is found in her childhood experiences.
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The Inner Planes are the wellspring of dreams, the origin of inspiration, the source of prophetic vision.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's the great legal wellspring of the modern civil rights revolution.
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But I'd be cutting myself off from the wellspring of that success, from the common man.
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Viable grand strategies need to rest on a wellspring of domestic support.
Academic text (2011) -
That above all you love people and from that wellspring of love the complications arise in your life.
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Movement has unlocked a wellspring of confidence.
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You drink from the wellspring of relaxation that enriches your soul.
Fiction book (1991) -
But overthinking is the wellspring of unnecessary suffering.
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In this framework, history becomes a wellspring for the creative reassessment of old identities.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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2.6
A place or thing where something comes from
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8.7
A main source of new ideas and knowledge
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4.9
Something that gives people happiness all the time
A source that gives many new creative ideas
Compounds
How Abundant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wellspring comes from well and spring, so imagine a spring that keeps feeding a well and giving water 'without stopping'. That's why wellspring is used for any rich source of ideas, energy, or feelings.