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Synonyms for spring

noun

  1. A fountain

    flowing well, artesian well, sweet water; see fountain 2, origin 2.

  2. The season between winter and summer

    springtime, seedtime, vernal season, flowering, budding, sowing-time, vernal equinox, blackberry winter*; see also April, June, May, season.

  3. Origin

    source, cause, beginning, font, fountain; see also origin 3.

See spring in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


verb
  1. To move off the ground by a muscular effort of the legs and feet:

    hurdle, jump, leap, vault2. See move, rise
  2. To bound lightly:

    hop, skip, skitter, trip. See move
  3. To move in a lively way:

    bounce, bound1, jump, leap. See move
  4. To have as a source:

    arise, come, derive, emanate, flow, issue, originate, proceed, rise, stem, upspring. See start
  5. To have hereditary derivation:

    derive, descend, issue. Idiom: trace one's descent. See kin
  6. (Slang)

    To set at liberty:

    discharge, emancipate, free, liberate, loose, manumit, release. Idiom: let loose. See free
noun
  1. The quality or state of being flexible:

    bounce, ductility, elasticity, flexibility, flexibleness, give, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, springiness, suppleness. (Obsolete) flexure. See flexible
  2. The act of jumping:

    jump, leap, vault2. See move, rise
  3. A light bounding movement:

    hop, skip. See move
  4. A sudden lively movement:

    bounce, bound1, jump, leap. See move
  5. A point of origination:

    beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root1, rootstock, source, well1. See start
  6. A basis for an action or a decision:

    cause, ground (often used in plural), motivation, motive, reason. See start
  7. The initial stage of a developmental process:

    beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, nascence, nascency, onset, opening, origin, outset, start. See start
  8. The season of the year during which the weather becomes warmer and plants revive:

    seedtime, springtide, springtime. See time
  9. The time of life between childhood and maturity:

    adolescence, greenness, juvenescence, juvenility, puberty, salad days, youth, youthfulness. See youth
adjective

Of, occurring in, or characteristic of the season of spring:

vernal. See time

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