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springtime en · NOUN

Etymology

From spring + time.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The season of spring, between winter and summer.
    • Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham:
  2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A period of flourishing and renewal.
    • For the moment, at least, there is a sense that a new springtime has arrived for the Church’s progressives. 2015 April 19, Ross Douthat, “Will Pope Francis Break the Church?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
springtimes Number=Plur lexicographic
spring-time alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

gay as springtime

Translations (17)

mk пролет (season of spring) · cmn 繁榮期 /繁荣期 (period of flourishing) · gv Yn Arragh (season of spring) · bg пролет (season of spring) · cmn 春季 (season of spring) · fi kevät (period of flourishing) · ru весе́нний сезо́н (season of spring) · ru весеннее вре́мя года (season of spring) · pdt Farjoa (season of spring) · cmn 春天 (season of spring) · bo དཔྱིད་དུས (season of spring) · cmn 復興時期 /复兴时期 (period of flourishing) · fi kevät (season of spring) · es primavera (season of spring) · ko 봄철 (season of spring) · de Frühlingszeit (season of spring) · ru весна́ (season of spring)