spring
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Is spring a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of spring?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.Examples: "The boat sprang a leak and began to sink."; "...þe wound þat was springand with huge stremes of blude..."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.Examples: "...so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe."; "Home I would go, But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping Creditors, Watchfull as Fowlers when their Game will ſpring; […]"intransitive
3. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.Examples: "Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder, To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man? To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth."; "Commerce! beneath whose poison-breathing shade No solitary virtue dares to spring, […]"; "Dr. Sigmund Freud... says that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great."intransitive
4. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.UKdialectalintransitive
5. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.Synonyms: arise, form, take shape, come into beingfigurativelyintransitive
6. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.Examples: "He hit the gas and the car sprang to life."figurativelyintransitivesometimes
noun (English)
1. (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.Examples: "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."countable
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.Examples: "Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce."; "You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable."; "No joy the blowing season gives, The herald melodies of spring, But in the songs I love to sing A doubtful gleam of solace lives."Synonyms: springtimecountableuncountable
3. (countable, uncountable) 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.Examples: "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."Synonyms: springtimecountableuncountable
4. (countable, uncountable) 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.Examples: "I spent my spring holidays in Morocco."; "The spring issue will be out next week."Synonyms: springtimecountableuncountable
5. (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.Examples: "...and it came to passe about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house..."; "O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day."figurativelyuncountable
6. (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.Examples: "Arab Spring"; "Prague Spring"countablefigurativelyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.Examples: "True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;"; "If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…]"; "They wintered in a warm place And summered in a cold, But where they springed and autumned I never have been told."intransitive
name (English)
1. (countable) A surname.countable
Definition source: Wiktionary