spring-cleaning

1. 1.

   the activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter

   Broadercleaning

Questions about spring-cleaning

What does spring-cleaning mean?

spring-cleaning means "the activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter".

How many syllables are in spring-cleaning?

spring-cleaning has 4 syllables: spring--cle-a-ning. The stress falls on "cle".

Is spring-cleaning a common word?

spring-cleaning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.