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Meaning of pavasaris | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR C2 Standard
[ˈpavasːaɾis]

Definitions

  1. spring (season of the year between winter and summer, from March 21 to June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, characterized by increasing temperature and by the blooming of flowers)
    declension-2, masculine
  2. spring, typical of spring, used in spring
    declension-2, masculine
  3. spring; early stage
    declension-2, figuratively, masculine

Examples

“agrs, vēls pavasaris”

early, late spring

“vēss, auksts pavasaris”

cool, cold spring

“sauss pavasaris”

dry spring

“tuvojas pavasaris”

spring is coming

“pavasaris sākas, iestājas”

spring is beginning

“pavasaris pienācis”

spring has come

“pavasara ekvinokcija”

spring equinox

“pavasaris aptver to laika posmu, kad gaisa temperatūra paaugstinās virs 0°, bet nav augstāka par 15° C”

spring covers the period when the air temperature rises above 0°, but is not higher than 15° C

“pavasara atkusnis”

spring thaw

“pavasara ūdeņi, pali”

spring waters, floods

“pavasara salna”

spring frost

“pavasara aršana”

spring plowing

“pirmie pavasara ziedi”

the first spring flowers

“pavasara mēteļi”

spring coats

“akadēmijas pavasara izstāde”

college spring exhibition

“dzīves pavasaris”

the spring of life (i.e., youth)

“Prāgas pavasaris”

the Prague spring (first liberalization period in March of 1968 in the former Czechoslovakia)

“es redzu nākam tautu pavasari!”

I see the spring (= blooming) of the people coming!

“Apjomā J. Alunāna “Dziesmiņas” bija gluži pieticīga burtnīciņa, bet liela tā kļuva nozīmībā: ar to īsti sākās latviešu mākslas dzejas pavasaris”

in size, J. Alunāns “Dziesmiņas” (“Little Songs”) was a quite modest little book, but it became big in significance: with it began the spring of Latvian poetic art

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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