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Spring
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spring
English
Pronunciation
en /spɹɪŋ/
Proper noun
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en countable en.
en CDP co/Harris County s/Texas c/USA. TopoZone: Spring, Texas
en spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter.
en 1769 Firishta Alexander Dow Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi I P. and W. Wilson et al. Dublin 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.
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
en Houghton-le-Spring
References
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
hrx /ʃpriŋ/
Noun
hrx noun form m
hrx Sprung