SPRINGTIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does springtime mean? 

• SPRINGTIME (noun)
  The noun SPRINGTIME has 1 sense:

1. the season of growth

  Familiarity information: SPRINGTIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPRINGTIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The season of growth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

spring; springtime

Context example:

he will hold office until the spring of next year

Hypernyms ("springtime" is a kind of...):

season; time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions)

Meronyms (parts of "springtime"):

March equinox; spring equinox; vernal equinox (March 21)

 Context examples 

Researchers investigated the spatial patterns of springtime U.S. regional tornado outbreaks from 1950-2014 and their connection to springtime phases of ENSO.

(Ocean temperatures may hold key to predicting tornado outbreaks, NOAA)

“It’s springtime, and you won’t get any more cold weather,” the man replied.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Earlier springtime activity and emergence from a dormant winter state can allow insect populations to seek out favorable environments and produce more generations per year, improving their survivability in the face of rapid environmental change.

(Secrets to climate change adaptation uncovered in the European corn borer moth, National Science Foundation)

New research led by NASA and the University of Washington, Seattle, confirms that springtime snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last 50 years, by about a third in the Western Hemisphere and by half near Alaska.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)