"Spring" meaning in English

See Spring in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Springs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~}} Spring (countable and uncountable, plural Springs)
  1. (countable) A surname. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-Spring-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 48 52
  2. Alternative form of spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter. Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: spring (extra: the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter) Derived forms: Houghton-le-Spring
    Sense id: en-Spring-en-name-uzUwDGpB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 58

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Springs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "Spring (countable and uncountable, plural Springs)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Spring-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A surname."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter",
          "word": "spring"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "Houghton-le-Spring"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter."
      ],
      "id": "en-Spring-en-name-uzUwDGpB",
      "links": [
        [
          "spring",
          "spring#English"
        ],
        [
          "season",
          "season"
        ],
        [
          "warmth",
          "warmth"
        ],
        [
          "new",
          "new"
        ],
        [
          "vegetation",
          "vegetation"
        ],
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ],
        [
          "winter",
          "winter"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Spring"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Houghton-le-Spring"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Springs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "Spring (countable and uncountable, plural Springs)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English surnames"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A surname."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter",
          "word": "spring"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spring",
          "spring#English"
        ],
        [
          "season",
          "season"
        ],
        [
          "warmth",
          "warmth"
        ],
        [
          "new",
          "new"
        ],
        [
          "vegetation",
          "vegetation"
        ],
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ],
        [
          "winter",
          "winter"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Spring"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Spring meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (bcd5c38 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.