springtime
nounEtymology From spring + time.
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:
- Derived terms
- gay as springtime