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spring-time

spring-time is the alternative form of springtime.

Meaning of springtime

Noun

springtime (countable and uncountable, plural springtimes)

  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.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham
  2. (broadly) 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.2015 April 19, Ross Douthat, “Will Pope Francis Break the Church?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN

Forms of spring-time

pluralspring-times

Questions about spring-time

What is spring-time the alternative form of?
Spring-time is the alternative form of springtime.

Words near spring-time in the dictionary

  1. spring-loaded modes
  2. spring-loading
  3. spring-loads
  4. spring-release
  5. spring-tail
  6. spring-time
  7. spring-times
  8. spring-water
  9. spring-waters
  10. springal
  11. springald

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