"yeartide" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: yeartides [plural]
Etymology: From year + tide (“time, occasion”). Compare West Frisian jiertiid (“season”), Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season”), Swedish årstid (“season”), Icelandic árstíð (“season”), Yiddish יאָרצײַט (yortsayt). Doublet of yahrzeit. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|year|tide|t2=time, occasion}} year + tide (“time, occasion”), {{cog|fy|jiertiid|t=season}} West Frisian jiertiid (“season”), {{cog|nl|jaartijd}} Dutch jaartijd, {{m|nl|jaargetijde||season}} jaargetijde (“season”), {{cog|de|Jahreszeit||season}} German Jahreszeit (“season”), {{cog|sv|årstid||season}} Swedish årstid (“season”), {{cog|is|árstíð||season}} Icelandic árstíð (“season”), {{cog|yi|יאָרצײַט}} Yiddish יאָרצײַט (yortsayt), {{doublet|en|yahrzeit}} Doublet of yahrzeit Head templates: {{en-noun}} yeartide (plural yeartides)
  1. (chiefly poetic or fantasy) A specific time of year; season. Tags: poetic Categories (topical): Fantasy
    Sense id: en-yeartide-en-noun-wpEFF-4z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2 Topics: fantasy
  2. (rare, nonstandard) A specific time each year; anniversary. Tags: nonstandard, rare
    Sense id: en-yeartide-en-noun-xZgKw58d
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: yeartime

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1958, American Jewish Congress, Judaism",
          "text": "Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide of days, a yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?",
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          "ref": "1985, Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness",
          "text": "Peter & 2-Js & I joined in a flower bunch, besides which I also sent her a 15 bob sheaf on my own, with gum-leafage — the sole homish stuff havable here at this yeartide — there among.",
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          "ref": "2006, Gene Wolfe, The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight",
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