upspring

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “upspring”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology 1

From Middle English upspringen, from Old English uppspringan, ūpspringan, equivalent to up- +‎ spring.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌpˈspɹɪŋ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

upspring (third-person singular simple present upsprings, present participle upspringing, simple past upsprang or upsprung, past participle upsprung)

1. (intransitive) To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.
   • 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Timbuctoo:

     In diamond light upspring the dazzling peaks Of Pyramids

   • 1879, Charles Morris, Historical Tales:

     Might not its waters upspring in this new land, whose discovery was the great marvel of the age, and which men looked upon as the unknown east of Asia?

Synonyms

• (spring up): spring, spring up, sprout, arise, be born, come into existence; see also Thesaurus:come into being

Derived terms

• upspringing
• upsprung

Etymology 2

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌpspɹɪŋ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

upspring (plural upsprings)

1. (obsolete) An upstart.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     the swaggering upspring

2. A spring or leap into the air.
3. origin

Synonyms

• (upstart): parvenu, upstart
• (a spring or leap into the air): bound, jump, leap, spring

Derived terms

• upspring reel

Anagrams

• spring up