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English
Proper noun
Spring (countable and uncountable, plural Springs)
- (countable) A surname.
- 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
- plural of Sprung