Spring

See also: spring

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɹɪŋ/

Proper noun

Spring (countable and uncountable, plural Springs)

1. (countable) A surname.
2. A census-designated place in Harris County, Texas, United States.
3. 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.

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 131:

     [T]he Regent’s park was full of winter chirruppings and sweet with Spring odours.

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• Houghton-le-Spring

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃpriŋ/

Noun

Spring m

1. plural of Sprung