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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
springtime
noun
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▪ After all, that an organism may spend the energies of its springtime resisting being eaten alive is not unknown to me.
▪ Carolyn Henderson offers some springtime suggestions.
▪ It was springtime and the slopes were ablaze with almond blossom, the vivid green terraces edged with blue irises.
▪ Its springtime for President Bill Clinton as he watches his Republican challengers rip each other to shreds.
▪ Majorca was renowned for its springtime almond blossom, Fernando had told her.
▪ No dead birds in the larder in springtime.
▪ You are surprised to find yourself singing in the springtime, putting a flower in your hair, trying a new lipstick.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Springtime

Springtime \Spring"time`\ (-t[imac]m`), n. The season of spring; springtide.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
springtime

also spring-time, late 15c., from spring (n.1) + time (n.).

Wiktionary
springtime

n. The season of spring, between winter and summer.

WordNet
springtime

n. the season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year" [syn: spring]

Wikipedia
Springtime

Springtime may refer to:

  • Springtime (painting), by Claude Monet
  • Springtime! an entertainment company and record label
  • Springtime (band), a band from Austria
  • Springtime (1920 film), a film starring Oliver Hardy
  • Springtime (1929 film), a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film
  • Springtime (2004 film), a South Korean film
  • Springtime (Cheongchun), a 1999 South Korean TV series starring Kim Hyun-joo
  • Springtime (guitar), an experimental guitar created by Yuri Landman
  • Springtime, Montana, an unincorporated community
Springtime (2004 film)

Springtime (; lit. When Spring Comes) is a 2004 South Korean film starring Choi Min-sik as a struggling musician who takes a job as a music teacher in a rural mining town outside of Seoul.

Springtime (1920 film)

Springtime is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring Oliver Hardy.

Springtime (guitar)

The Springtime is an experimental electric guitar with seven strings and three outputs. The instrument was created in 2008 by Dutch luthier Yuri Landman for guitar player Laura-Mary Carter of Blood Red Shoes.

Springtime (band)

Springtime was an Austrian band of the 1970s.

The band consisted of Norbert Niedermayer, Walter Markel, Gerhard Markel and Erwin Broswimmer. The group represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, in Paris, performing the entry Mrs. Caroline Robinson. The Austrian entry finished in 15th place with 14 points.

Niedermayer had already represented his country in 1972, as part of the band Milestones.

Springtime (1929 film)

Springtime is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released in 1929. It was the third Silly Symphonies film to be produced.

Springtime (painting)

Springtime is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet. It depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, seated serenely beneath a canopy of lilacs. The painting is presently held by the Walters Art Museum.

Usage examples of "springtime".

The hills surrounding Drake Field were in the full lush greenery of late springtime, and the air was the fragrant Bodarks ozone that is found nowhere else on earth, but he sniffed it as if it came from a sewage plant, and he looked around disdainfully at his surroundings until his eyes came to rest on me, and he gave me a look as if sizing me up for the casting couch and finding me not worthy of it.

Pierre, the commander of Fort Le Boeuf, asked Washington, in rich diplomatic sarcasm, to descend to the particularization of facts, and the lithe figure disappeared behind the snows of the mountains only to come again across the mountains in the springtime with sterner questioning.

The North Road cut through brushland for a time, then through stands of saplings, then at last through true forest, green and lush in the springtime.

Martian springtimes of flash floods and heavier atmosphere from evaporating carbon dioxide came farther apart, and finally stopped, and the cysts ceased blooming.

Valora steals a victory at a time when all expected her to flee tail-tucked, like a yearling too full of springtime strength who has been pounded by the One Male.

Chilly, up here in these mountains even in springtime, but nothing compared to a Thuringian winter.

Just as springtime possesses a vibrancy of fresh life unsurpassed by any other season, just so - say the seers - is there an ebb and flow of the Life Force, but spread out over vast aeons of time.

I will master all the secrets of the times gone by and the times to come, and I will fill my soul with wisdom until I nearly burst of it, and then I will set all my knowledge down in the chronicles, for those who are to follow after us in this the New Springtime.

New Springtime, where the wild beasts of the Long Winter still roam free in the forests and the parched and eroded relics of abandoned Great World cities lie shriveling like shards of bone on the dry windy uninhabited plateaus.

He drove other, deadlier matters out of his thoughts and gave her the springtime look.

In springtime the ladies distinguish themselves by the grace with which they use their fingers.

The Pawnees had died in their cold tepees by the fifties, the soldiers lay dead in the trenches without the fort, and many a gay French voyageur, who had thought to go singing down the Missouri on his fur-laden raft in the springtime, would never again see the lights of St.

The curve attains its apogee at the end of October in the same year, then falls rapidly, and finally flattens off at its springtime level.

They seemed haloed with the first misty buddings of springtime, ethereal, almost divine.

It was springtime now, and Caitlyn couldn't help wondering how the powers that be decided Sara would pretend to be a customer that week.