Spring
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Spring (countable and uncountable, plural Springs)
- (countable) A surname.
- 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.
Usage notes[edit]
- The season is now more frequently written with a lower-case initial letter: "spring".
Derived terms[edit]
Hunsrik[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Spring m