wellspring
wels pring
- n the source of water for a well
- n an abundant source
- But it is the wellspring from which a lot of Internet culture, and hence popular culture, bubbles.
- Religion was an expression of human culture, she would explain, not its wellspring, just one of the many waysand not necessarily the best waythat man attempted to control .
- The death of Princess Diana tapped a wellspring of modern emotions and highlighted a change in the way we define news.