Spring

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English

Proper noun

Spring (countable and uncountable, plural Springs)

  1. (countable) A surname.
  2. Alternative form of spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter.
    • 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:
      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.

Usage notes

  • The season is now more frequently written with a lower-case initial letter: "spring".

Derived terms

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Noun

Spring m

  1. plural of Sprung