SPRING UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spring up mean? 

• SPRING UP (verb)
  The verb SPRING UP has 1 sense:

1. come into existence; take on form or shape

  Familiarity information: SPRING UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPRING UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come into existence; take on form or shape

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise

Context example:

An interesting phenomenon uprose

Hypernyms (to "spring up" is one way to...):

become (come into existence)

Verb group:

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spring up"):

resurge (rise again)

come forth; emerge (happen or occur as a result of something)

come; follow (to be the product or result)

swell; well up (come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things))

head (take its rise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

But suites of apartments did not spring up with her wishes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The trap drove on, and a few minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I wisht they'd spring up a bunch of moose or something, an' go away an' leave us alone," Bill said.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then he studied the deep-lined face of the toil-worn woman before him, remembered her soups and loaves of new baking, and felt spring up in him the warmest gratitude and philanthropy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Through the fogged glass I dimly saw a man spring up from a chair beside the fire, and heard a sharp cry from within the room.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I compelled her to stand up, and though she would have fallen had I not supported her, I forced her to walk back and forth the several steps between the thwart and the stern-sheets, and finally to spring up and down.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The composure of mind with which I have brought myself at present to consider the matter, the consolation that I have been willing to admit, have been the effect of constant and painful exertion;—they did not spring up of themselves;—they did not occur to relieve my spirits at first.— No, Marianne.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The hairy man could spring up into the trees and travel ahead as fast as on the ground, swinging by the arms from limb to limb, sometimes a dozen feet apart, letting go and catching, never falling, never missing his grip.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

When you are half-way over, throw it down, and out of the waters will immediately spring up a high nut-tree on which the griffin will be able to rest, otherwise he would not have the strength to bear you the whole way; if, therefore, thou dost forget to throw down the nut, he will let you both fall into the sea.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And so also, when the ring has become as extinct as the lists, we may understand that a broader philosophy would show that all things, which spring up so naturally and spontaneously, have a function to fulfil, and that it is a less evil that two men should, of their own free will, fight until they can fight no more than that the standard of hardihood and endurance should run the slightest risk of being lowered in a nation which depends so largely upon the individual qualities of her citizens for her defence.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)