Tide Definition

tīd
tided, tides, tiding
noun
tides
A period of time.
Eastertide, eventide.
Webster's New World
The alternate rise and fall of the surface of oceans, seas, and the bays, rivers, etc. connected with them, caused by the attraction of the moon and sun: it may occur twice in each period of 24 hours and 50 minutes, which is the time of one rotation of the earth with respect to the moon.
Webster's New World
A specific occurrence of such a variation.
Awaiting the next high tide.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
Flood tide.
American Heritage
verb
tided, tides, tiding
To flow or surge like a tide.
Webster's New World
To betide; befall.
American Heritage
To drift or ride with the tide.
Tided off the reef; tiding up the Hudson.
American Heritage
To betide; happen.
Webster's New World
To carry with or as with the tide.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Webster's New World
suffix

Time, added to a festival name to indicate the period around that festival.

Wiktionary
idiom
tide over
  • to help along temporarily, as through a period of difficulty
Webster's New World
turn the tide
  • to reverse a condition
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Tide

Noun

Singular:
tide
Plural:
tides

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Tide

Origin of Tide

  • From Middle English tide, from Old English tÄ«d (“time, period, season, while; hour; feast-day, festal-tide; canonical hour or service"), from Proto-Germanic *tÄ«diz (“time, period"), from Proto-Indo-European *dÄ«ti- (“time, period"), from Proto-Indo-European *dÄ«- (“time"). Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide"), North Frisian tid (“time"), West Frisian tiid (“time, while"), Dutch tijd (“time"), Low German Tied (“time"), Tiet, Low German Tide (“tide of the sea"), German Zeit (“time"), Danish tid (“time"), Swedish tid (“time"), Icelandic tíð (“time"), Albanian ditë (“day"), Old Armenian Õ¿Õ« (ti, “age"), Kurdish dem (“time"). Related to time.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English tīd division of time dā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English tiden from Old English tīdan dā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tÄ«dan (“to happen").

    From Wiktionary

  • Old English tid, from Old High German zit

    From Wiktionary

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