SPRING EQUINOX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spring equinox mean? 

• SPRING EQUINOX (noun)
  The noun SPRING EQUINOX has 1 sense:

1. March 21

  Familiarity information: SPRING EQUINOX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPRING EQUINOX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

March 21

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

March equinox; spring equinox; vernal equinox

Hypernyms ("spring equinox" is a kind of...):

equinox (either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spring equinox"):

Noruz; Nowrooz; Nowruz ((Persian) the new year holiday in Iran and Azerbaijan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and parts of India and among the Kurds; comes at the vernal equinox)

Holonyms ("spring equinox" is a part of...):

Mar; March (the month following February and preceding April)

spring; springtime (the season of growth)

 Context examples 

Either of two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic; either of the two times each year when the sun crosses the equator, and day and night are of equal length (spring equinox, fall equinox).

(Equinox, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)