Dictionary

Spring en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /spɹɪŋ/

Meanings

1. (countable) A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable) A census-designated place in Harris County, Texas, United States.
3. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter.
   alt of spring
   • [T]he Regent’s park was full of winter chirruppings and sweet with Spring odours. 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 131:
   • There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties. 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iii:

Forms

Deriveds

Houghton-le-Spring