Thesaurus results for HEADSPRING

headspring

noun

Definition of headspring

as in hot spring

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Recent Examples of headspring When the headsprings reach capacity, the park closes entirely, so timing matters. — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2026 Walk the half-mile trail from the headspring with your gear to scuba dive at Blue Hole Spring (most divers refer to this spring as Jug Spring; bring a cart or wheelbarrow along to lighten the load). — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2024 Cost is $2 per person to enter the park, which also serves up food at Paradise Treats and Spring Side Cafe, a viewing deck of the headspring and paved walkways that run along the Silver River and through ornamental gardens. — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2017

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The 3-night, 4-day trip includes two nights onboard the train and one night at a renowned hot spring resort.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2026
Brighter landscape shots with more complicated colors, however, like a steaming blue hot spring surrounded by yellow-red sand and green trees, don’t look nearly as vibrant as the lush greens and blues of the Planet Earth II footage.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026

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Crumbs of a vanilla ice cream sandwich covered Michael McCormick’s 6-year-old son’s mouth as the two sat on the edge of the fountain between the North and South towers of the World Trade Center.

— Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
Finally, in the entryway washroom, guests are invited to casually wash their hands at a marble fountain relocated from Marie Antoinette’s gardens in Versailles, now serving as the most historic sink in Paris.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2026

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While tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen may see empathy and introspection as weaknesses, those traits are the beating heart of literature and art, the wellspring of creativity and human connection.

— Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
The library instead has an online donation portal that's seen a wellspring of financial support since Monday.

— John Tufts, IndyStar, 19 Aug. 2026

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Their destination was the ancestral hearth, spiritual fountainhead, and reliquary of antiquities, the country home of the Wariboko war-canoe family.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
Drummer Booker Stardrum sits behind the kit for rising jazz jammers SML, while Moog player Ben Vida co-founded the turn-of-the-century minimalist-ambient group Town & Country, and logged time in post-emo fountainhead Joan of Arc.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 3 July 2026

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