The season of spring. Cf. Lent, n.1 1. Also figurative. Scottish in later use. Now rare.
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| 释义 | the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring (34) LenteneOE The season of spring. Cf. Lent, n.1 1. Also figurative. Scottish in later use. Now rare. LentlOE The season of spring. Now only in compounds (see compounds 1a compounds 2). Cf. Lenten, n. 1. warea1300 The season of spring. verec1325 The season of spring; spring-time. vera1382 The season of spring; springtime. vere-time1382 spring-time. springing timea1387 Springtime. Also figurative. springinga1398 The beginning of the year; the season of spring. Also: the beginning of a particular season or era. Also figurative. Frequently in the springing o… springa1400 The season between winter and summer (now generally regarded as lasting from March to May in the northern hemisphere and from September to November… prime tempsa1425 Springtime, spring; the beginning, the earliest time. the spring of the year1481 the spring of the year: the first season of the year; springtime. grass1485 The yearly growth of grass; (hence) the season when the grass grows, spring and early summer. Now somewhat rare. springtime1495 The season of spring (see spring, n.1 17a). Cf. spring tide, n. 1a. prime time1503 Springtime, spring. Obsolete. sap-time?1523 the time of year when the sap circulates. spring tide1530 Frequently as one word. The season of spring; springtime. In later use chiefly literary or poetic. (the) spring of the leaf1538 (the) spring of the leaf: the time when trees begin to burst into leaf; springtime. Now rare and archaic. Cf. (the) fall of the leaf at fall, n.2… prime1541 Spring (as the first season of the year when this began in March). Obsolete (poetic in later use). prime tide1549 Springtime, spring. Also figurative: the beginning or ‘springtime’ of life, an age, etc. voar1629 The spring; seed-time. Also vore-time. vernal season1644 Of, pertaining or belonging to, the springtime; appropriate to the spring; spring-like. the season of spring. vernal1654 elliptical or as n. The vernal season; the spring. Obsolete. rare. outcome1672 Scottish. The time of the year when the days begin to lengthen. Lent term1691 (at Cambridge University and formerly also at Oxford) the term in which Lent falls. blossom-time1713 open water1759 The melting of ice on rivers and lakes in spring; the time when this happens. Now Canadian. rabi1783 In South Asia: the spring season. Cf. kharif, n. 2. budding-timea1807 attributive, as in budding-knife, budding-time. ware-time1820 growing season1845 the season when rainfall and temperature permit plants to grow. Subcategories:— character of (1) — early or late spring (1) — a season resembling (2) |
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