Word: spring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”); partly from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *spring, from Proto-Germanic *springaz (“a wellspring, fount”); and partly from Old English spryng (“a jump”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprungi, from Proto-Germanic *sprungiz (“a jump”). Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English lenten, lente, from Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall. Pronunciation: /ˈspɹɪŋ/, [ˈspɹʷɪŋ], /ˈspɹiŋ/, [ˈspɹʷiŋ], /ˈspɹɪ̝ŋ/ 1. An act of springing: a leap, a jump. Labels: countable Example: The pris'ner with a spring from prison broke; Then stretch'd his feather'd fans with all his might, And to the neighb'ring maple wing'd his flight. 2. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce. Example: You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable. 3. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Chinese New Year always occurs in January or February but is called the "Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring. 4. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I spent my spring holidays in Morocco. Example: The spring issue will be out next week. 5. The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: ...and it came to passe about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house... Example: O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day. 6. The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Arab Spring Example: Prague Spring 7. 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. Labels: countable 8. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This beer was brewed with pure spring water. 9. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 10. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 11. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We jumped so hard the bed springs broke. 12. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He had warped round with the springs on his cable, and had recommenced his fire upon the Aurora. 13. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much. Example: Spring is likewise a rope reaching diagonally from the stern of a ship to the head of another which lies along-side or a-breast of her. 14. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 15. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 16. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 17. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 18. An erection of the penis. Labels: countable, slang 19. A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: A spar is said to be sprung, when it is cracked or split,... and the crack is called a spring. 20. Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the spring of a bow 21. Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Heav'ns what a spring was in his Arm, to throw: How high he held his Shield, and rose at ev'ry blow! Example: Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds. 22. The source from which an action or supply of something springs. Labels: countable Example: As wel the singers as the players on instruments shall bee there: all my springs are in thee. Example: Such a man can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth him, he can patiently suffer all things with cheerfull submission and resignation to the Divine Will. He has a secret Spring of spiritual Joy, and the continual Feast of a good Conscience within, that forbid him to be miserable. 23. Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our Author ſhuns by vulgar Springs to move / The Hero's Glory, or the Virgin's Love; […] 24. Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The firstand spring the fiddle did play Hey wi the gay and the grinding Said, "Ye'll drown my sister, as she's dune me." At the bony bony bows of London