Synonyms of the word

wellspring

• n. The source of water for a stream, spring or well; a fountainhead; a wellhead.
• n. A perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or emanation; resource.

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

fountainhead

• n. A spring that is the source of a river.
• n. An abundant source of knowledge, etc.

origin

• n. The beginning of something.
• n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
• n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

source

• n. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
• n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which…
• n. A reporter's informant.
• n. (computing) Source code.
• n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
• v. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation…

well

• adv. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
• adv. (manner) Completely, fully.
• adv. (degree) To a significant degree.
• adv. (degree, Britain, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
• adv. In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
• adj. In good health.
• adj. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
• interj. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
• interj. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
• interj. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
• interj. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.
• interj. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting.
• n. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
• n. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
• n. A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.
• n. (figuratively) A source of supply.
• n. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through…
• n. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
• n. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having…
• n. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out…
• n. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
• n. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
• n. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
• n. A well drink.
• n. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
• n. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test…
• v. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
• v. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.

wellhead

• n. The place where a spring breaks out of the ground; the source of water for a stream or well.
• n. (figuratively) The source of something; a fountainhead.
• n. The surface structure of an oil well etc.