wellspringnoun [ S ]
uk/ˈwel.sprɪŋ/us/ˈwel.sprɪŋ/literarythe place something comes from or starts at, or the cause of something:
the wellspring of the creative spirit
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source
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Origins and sources
- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc. idiom
- beginning
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- come from somewhere/sth
- emanate from/through sth/sb
- fount
- genesis
- hail from somewhere
- issue
- issue from sth
- recipe
- root
- seed
- son
- source
- stem
- stem from sth
- the cradle of sth idiom
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