spree
part of speech
noun (a spree, sprees)
meaning for a pupil
1) A short time when you do a lot of something you enjoy, without holding back: a shopping spree, a spending spree. tree →
2) A wild time of fun. tree →
3) (serious, news) a spree of crimes means many crimes one after another. tree →
sense in the lessons
A word for doing too much at once. In everyday life: a shopping spree, a chocolate spree. In The Wind in the Willows Toad goes on a spree of buying motor cars and crashing them. In money lessons a spending spree can empty your savings fast.
examples
- Mum went on a shopping spree in the sales. tree →
- He spent all his pocket money in one spree. tree →
- Toad's motor-car spree ended in court. tree →
- The kids had a cake-baking spree on Saturday. tree →
- After the spending spree, there was no money left for the bills. tree →
- The team went on a scoring spree in the second half. tree →
- Monday mawnin' he'd git on a spree, en all dat week he'd be on a spree, en de nex' Monday mawnin' he'd take a fresh start. tree →
note
Countable noun. Usually «go on a spree». In money problems «spree» means spending lots quickly — check how much is left.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «spree» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.