spring-cleaning vs cleaning

spring-cleaning and cleaning both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spring-cleaning	Yes	No	No	No
cleaning	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cleaning is a hypernym of spring-cleaning; that is, cleaning is a word with a broader meaning than spring-cleaning:

spring-cleaning: the activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter
cleaning: the act of making something clean

Other hypernyms of spring-cleaning include cleansing, cleanup.

spring-cleaning (noun)	cleaning (noun)
the activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter	the act of making something clean