springtime

English

Etymology

From spring +‎ time.

Noun

springtime (countable and uncountable, plural springtimes)

  1. The season of spring, between winter and summer.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham:
      Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.
  2. (by extension) A period of flourishing and renewal.
    • 2015 April 19, Ross Douthat, “Will Pope Francis Break the Church?”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic‎[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 April 2026:
      For the moment, at least, there is a sense that a new springtime has arrived for the Church’s progressives.

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