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- Dictionaryspruce/spruːs/
adjective
- 1. neat in dress and appearance: "Angela was a very spruce and tidy person"
verb
- 1. make someone or something smarter or tidier: "the fund will be used to spruce up historic buildings" Similar
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SPRUCE definition: 1. an evergreen tree (= one that never loses its leaves) with leaves like needles, or the…. Learn more.
The meaning of SPRUCE is to make spruce —often used with up. How to use spruce in a sentence.
Spruce is a verb that means you pay special attention to your personal appearance, especially your grooming and clothing. If you want to spruce up for a wedding, you'll need to rent a tuxedo and do something with your hair. Spruce can also mean that you're making something else look better.
noun. any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales. any of various allied trees, as the Douglas fir and the hemlock spruce. the wood of any such tree.
SPRUCE meaning: 1. an evergreen tree (= one that never loses its leaves) with leaves like needles, or the…. Learn more.
n. 1. a. Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Picea, having flattened or four-angled needlelike leaves, a conic shape, pendulous cones, and soft wood often used for paper pulp. b. Any of various similar or related trees. c. The wood of any of these trees. 2. A grayish green to dark greenish black.
A spruce is a kind of evergreen tree. Trees such as spruce, pine and oak have been planted. ...a young blue spruce. ...80-year-old spruces. Spruce is the wood from this tree. Early settlers built frames of spruce, maple and pine. 2. adjective. Someone who is spruce is very neat and smart in appearance.
