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say it: SPRING-tahym
springtime is a noun meaning "the season of growth". It carries one recorded sense.
the season of growth
“the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring”
“he will hold office until the spring of next year”
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 springtime 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.