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springtime

noun

Etymology

From spring + time.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-✻
  2. derived from *deh₂imō✻
  3. inherited from *tīmô✻
  4. inherited from *tīmō✻
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. compounded as springtime — “spring + time”

Definitions

  1. The season of spring, between winter and summer.

    • Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.

  2. A period of flourishing and renewal.

    • For the moment, at least, there is a sense that a new springtime has arrived for the Church’s progressives.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA