Phrase guide

leaf spring

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A spring in the form of a curved length(s) of steel, used in the suspension of wheeled vehicles

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: carriage spring, cart spring, laminated spring, semi-elliptical spring

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: spring, component, part

2

noun

Meaning 2

long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: spring

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: bladveer — leaf spring
  • Armenian: զսպան (zspan) — leaf spring
  • Bulgarian: листов амортисьор (listov amortisjor) — leaf spring
  • Catalan: suspensió de ballesta — leaf spring
  • Dutch: bladveer — leaf spring
  • Finnish: lehtijousi — leaf spring
  • French: ressort à lames — leaf spring
  • German: Blattfeder — leaf spring
  • Ingrian: lesorit — leaf spring
  • Italian: balestra — leaf spring
  • Kazakh: рессора (ressora) — leaf spring
  • Latvian: slokšņu atspere — leaf spring
  • Latvian: atsperlāgs — leaf spring
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bladfjær — leaf spring
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bladfjør — leaf spring
  • Polish: resor — leaf spring
  • Portuguese: suspensão de lâminas — leaf spring
  • Russian: рессора (ressora) — leaf spring
  • Serbo-Croatian: lisnata opruga — leaf spring
  • Serbo-Croatian: lamelna opruga — leaf spring
  • Slovene: listnata vzmet — leaf spring
  • Spanish: suspensión de ballesta — leaf spring
  • Spanish: resorte tipo ballesta — leaf spring
  • Tajik: рессора (ressora) — leaf spring
  • Thai: แหนบ (nɛ̀ɛp) — leaf spring
  • Turkish: yaprak yay — leaf spring
  • Ukrainian: ресора (resora) — leaf spring
  • Vietnamese: nhíp — leaf spring