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Headspring

A fountainhead; a source.

📖 Definitions of "Headspring"

noun
  1. 1

    A fountainhead; a source.

  2. 2

    A basis or foundation.

  3. 3

    A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.

  4. 4

    A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.

verb
  1. 1

    To perform a headspring.

🔄 Synonyms of "Headspring"

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WordDefinition
headnoun(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
fountainheadnoun(figuratively) An abundant source of knowledge, etc.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Headspring"

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WordDefinition
fountainheadnoun(figuratively) An abundant source of knowledge, etc.
headnoun(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
wellspringnoun(figurative) A perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or emanation; resource.
headwatersnounThe source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
originnounThe beginning of something.
rootnounThe part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
beginningnoun(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
parentnoun(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
upspringnounA spring or leap into the air.
authorshipnounThe quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.
point of originnounA place where something comes from or originates.
forespringnounThe period preceding or leading up to spring.
principlenounA fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
grass rootsnoun(politics) People and society at the local (most basic) level rather than at the national centre of political activity.
preoriginnounAn ultimate source or origin, before the generally known or accepted origin.
progenitornounA forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
rootsnounAncestry.
brainchildnoun(informal) A creation of one's brain; an original idea or innovation of a person or group of people, an organization, etc.
basenounSomething from which other things extend; a foundation.
punctum saliensnoun(figurative) Starting point, source; gist.

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  • theheadspring
  • aheadspring

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  • headspringof
  • headspring.

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