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say it: SPRING-bawrd
springboard is a noun meaning "a flexible board for jumping upward". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a flexible board for jumping upward
a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
“he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own”
“reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”
“the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for springboard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.