spring water
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1.0
- noun
- /sprɪŋ ˈwɔːtər/
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- Would you like a glass of spring water after your hike?
- bottle of spring water
- bottled spring water
- pure spring water
I would use either spring water or Birch SAP.
- I would use either spring water or Birch SAP.
- Today I'm drinking good old fashioned Poland Spring water, OK, inside that diner coffee cup.
- I always forget how cold the spring water is, but it's so nice, so refreshing.
- And I was just like buying big jugs of spring water.
- We are super hydrated with their fabulous crisp, clean spring water.
- Because spring water has all of the components for life.
- You want to drink spring water, but you're having to drink drinking water, right?
Examples
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I was sipping Canadian spring water from a piece of company stemware.
Fiction book (1997) -
Can I offer you some spring water?
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This is our own spring water.
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I always forget how cold the spring water is, but it's so nice, so refreshing.
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A few bottles of spring water wait by the door.
Fiction book (2000) -
Pure Rocky Mountain spring water.
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Leela ushered him in, offered him a glass of sweet spring water, then left us alone.
Fiction book (1998) -
Twelve years ago, we bought a ranch with lots of gravity-fed spring water and water rights from the creek.
Blog text (13) -
The lost luggage attendant insisted on bringing her multiple cups of spring water while we waited.
Blog text (28) -
The carpenter ate his lunch on the grass in the yard; he drank spring water and talked about salmon nets.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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2.8
Water that comes from underground through a deep hole
How Natural
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'water that comes from a natural underground spring' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'spring' (a point where groundwater flows to the surface) with 'water' (potable liquid). This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent compound noun and any B1 learner who knows both constituents and basic noun compounding will be able to infer the intended meaning (context disambiguates the other sense of 'spring' as a season).
Etymology
Spring water comes from a natural spring, a place where water bubbles up from the ground. Because the water comes straight out of the earth, people think of spring water as 'pure' and 'good for drinking'.