Another word for spring
spring
n.
A fountain
flowing well, artesian well, sweet water; see fountain 2, origin 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.
Origin
source, cause, beginning, font, fountain; see also origin 3.
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Another word for spring
To move off the ground by a muscular effort of the legs and feet:
hurdle, jump, leap, vault2. See move, riseTo bound lightly:
hop, skip, skitter, trip. See moveTo move in a lively way:
bounce, bound1, jump, leap. See moveTo have as a source:
arise, come, derive, emanate, flow, issue, originate, proceed, rise, stem, upspring. See startTo have hereditary derivation:
derive, descend, issue. Idiom: trace one's descent. See kin- (Slang)
To set at liberty:
discharge, emancipate, free, liberate, loose, manumit, release. Idiom: let loose. See free
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 flexibleThe act of jumping:
jump, leap, vault2. See move, riseA light bounding movement:
hop, skip. See moveA sudden lively movement:
bounce, bound1, jump, leap. See moveA point of origination:
beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root1, rootstock, source, well1. See startA basis for an action or a decision:
cause, ground (often used in plural), motivation, motive, reason. See startThe initial stage of a developmental process:
beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, nascence, nascency, onset, opening, origin, outset, start. See startThe season of the year during which the weather becomes warmer and plants revive:
seedtime, springtide, springtime. See timeThe time of life between childhood and maturity:
adolescence, greenness, juvenescence, juvenility, puberty, salad days, youth, youthfulness. See youth
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"spring." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 14 July 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Spring>.
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spring. (n.d.). Retrieved July 14th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Spring
