Meaning

2 senses
  1. A spring or leap into the air.

  2. Origin

Origin

From Middle English upspring, upspringe, from Old English upspring (“origin, birth, rising

From Middle English upspring, upspringe, from Old English upspring (“origin, birth, rising up, springing up”), equivalent to up- + spring. Cognate with Old Saxon upspring (“well; source; spring”), Middle Low German upspringen (“to spring up; grow”).

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Forms

plural: upsprings
Singularupspring
Pluralupsprings

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
a spring or leap into the air:boundB1jumpB2leapB2springA1

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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