springtime

From spring +‎ time.

springtime (countable and uncountable, plural springtimes)

1. The season of spring, between winter and summer.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham:

     Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.

2. (by extension) A period of flourishing and renewal.
   • 2015 April 19, Ross Douthat, “Will Pope Francis Break the Church?”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], →ISSN:

     For the moment, at least, there is a sense that a new springtime has arrived for the Church’s progressives.

• spring-time

• gay as springtime

• impresting