What is the difference between wellspring and fountain?
wellspring | fountain | Synonyms |
The source of water for a stream, spring or well; a fountainhead; a wellhead.
A perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or emanation; resource.
(label) A spring, natural source of water.
An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
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A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
(label) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
(label) A soda fountain.
To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
* (Tom Reamy), Blind Voices
Fountain is a synonym of wellspring.
As nouns the difference between wellspring and fountain
is that wellspring is the source of water for a stream, spring or well; a fountainhead; a wellhead while fountain is a spring, natural source of water.As a verb fountain is
to flow or gush as if from a fountain.wellspring
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(en noun)fountain
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* fount * wellspringDerived terms
* fountainlet * fountain pen * fountainhead * drinking fountain * soda fountain * water fountainVerb
(en verb)- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.