spring
/ˈspɹɪŋ/ noun A1- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life. · Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.· You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere. · I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.· The spring issue will be out next week.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A period of political liberalization and democratization. · Arab Spring· Prague Spring
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground. · This beer was brewed with pure spring water.
Plural springs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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This gave the Lion a hint of the best way to attack the creature, and as he knew it was easier to fight it asleep than awake, he gave a great spring and landed directly upon the monster’s back.
Père Pamphile had seen Dantès pass not ten minutes before; and assured that he was at the Catalans, they sat down under the budding foliage of the planes and sycamores, in the branches of which the birds were singing their welcome to one of the first days of spring.
A STAG overpowered by heat came to a spring to drink.
While he was thus contemplating himself, a Lion appeared at the pool and crouched to spring upon him.
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