spruce

noun · adjective · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

sprucesspruce

1.
(countable, uncountable)Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
2.
(uncountable)The wood of a spruce.
3.
(attributive, countable, uncountable)(used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
That spruce table is beautiful!
4.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Prussian leather; pruce.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

sprucer

Superlative

sprucest

1.
(comparable)Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

spruces

V_ing/Gerund

sprucing

V_ed/pp

spruced

1.
(usually, with up)(usually with up) To arrange neatly; tidy up.
Đồng nghĩa: prettify, neaten, titivate
2.
(ambitransitive, usually, with up)(ambitransitive, usually with up) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
3.
To tease.

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Đồng nghĩa

prettify neaten titivate pulchritudinous

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English Spruce, an alteration of Pruce (Prussia), from -, from a - language, probably -; for more, see Prussia. Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia.