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How to pronounce spring
Say it like this: /ˈspɹɪŋ/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does spring mean?
verbTo move or burst forth.
“The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.”
To appear.
To grow, to sprout.
“Dr. Sigmund Freud... says that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.”
nounAn act of springing: a leap, a jump.
The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
“Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.”
The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and c
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