natural spring

1. 1.

   a natural flow of ground water

   Synonymsspringfountainoutflowoutpouring

   Broadergeological formation

   NarrowerFountain of Youthgeyserhot spring

Questions about natural spring

What does natural spring mean?

natural spring means "a natural flow of ground water".

What is another word for natural spring?

Close synonyms include spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is natural spring a common word?

natural spring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.