springtime

The season of spring, between winter and summer.

Noun

  1. The season of spring, between winter and summer.
    • Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils. - 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford,...
  2. A period of flourishing and renewal.
    • For the moment, at least, there is a sense that a new springtime has arrived for the Church’s progressives. - 2015 April 19, Ross Douthat, “Will Pope Francis Break the Church?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

Origin

From spring + time.

Forms

springtimes spring-time

Derived

gay as springtime