springtime

[ spring-tahym ]

noun

1. the season of spring.
2. the first or earliest period:

   the springtime of love.

springtime

/ ˈsprɪŋˌtaɪm /

noun

1. Also calledspringtideˈsprɪŋˌtaɪd the season of spring
2. the earliest, usually the most attractive, period of the existence of something

Word History and Origins

Origin of springtime¹

First recorded in 1485–95; spring + time

Example Sentences

The Census Bureau announced last week that it will not release the data states use to draw their legislative maps until the end of September — months later than the usual springtime release.

From Axios

He had no food, no shelter from the temperatures that even in springtime plunged the nights well below freezing.

From Time

They’re skiing terrain that they used to wait until springtime for.

From Outside Online

The country’s springtime lockdown kept death rates relatively low, but cases surged after the country eased its restrictions.

From Popular-Science

In the springtime, school-age children across the United States lost out on sports, proms and graduations as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

From Washington Post

Nazi t-shirts are also very popular in Thailand, which is one step away from staging a revival of Springtime For Hitler.

From The Daily Beast

Obama started his springtime trip in the Netherlands, where he visited The Hague, seat of the International Court of Justice.

From The Daily Beast

The current election season should be springtime for Democrats in Kentucky.

From The Daily Beast

Indeed, Prada has become a vociferous advocate for springtime fur-wearing.

From The Daily Beast

In Emilia Romagna, important churches and clock towers damaged in a series of springtime earthquakes will never be repaired.

From The Daily Beast

So the winter passed and springtime came again with all its beauty, and he continued in his book business.

From Project Gutenberg

In a springtime landscape a young peasant girl is seated beneath a tree, looking before her over a sunlit plain.

From Project Gutenberg

As the bird must fly north in springtime, so must I drink the hemp smoke, when the genii bid, or die.

From Project Gutenberg

It was one day in the early springtime when the eunuchs spread canopies on the palace roof.

From Project Gutenberg

No doubt the river is often bank full in springtime when the snows are melting, and its pace is then materially faster.

From Project Gutenberg

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