Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Springtime.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Springtime.
Wiktionary
- n. A high tide coinciding with a full moon or a new moon.
- n. By extension, any characteristic that has reached a high level.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The time of spring; springtime.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons
- n. a swelling rush of anything
Examples
“Somehow this year's springtide has taken us aback.”
The Huffington Post: Jack Schimmelman: Central Park: A Performance in Four Seasons (Spring)
“I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would lose its springtide beauty, and the fields would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues.”
“Wherefore for these bright blooms of spring thy springtide sweet surrendering, the tribute of my love repay and all my gifts with thine outweigh.”
“Crows and ravens flock for food to the camps broken up for the springtide and autumnal marches, and thus become emblems of desertion and desolation.”
“Moreover, one should not be cupped in very hot weather nor in very cold weather; and the best season for cupping is springtide.”
“Yet her body longed so sore for the springtide freshness of the grass, and was so bewooed of the flowery scent thereof, that though she durst not go unarmed, she did off her footgear and went stealing softly barefoot and with naked legs over the embroidered greensward, saying aloud to herself: If run for the ferry I needs must, lighter shall I run so dight.”
“Blossom of the rose undying brings undying springtide there.”
“Should she not always bear within her the seeds of sadness and mistrust, ready to grow up and rob emotion of its springtide of fervor?”
“The blue of innocence was in his eyes, and a gay smile of springtide abode upon his lips.”
“Beside those springtide flowers he was putting the ice of winter; hoary experience with young and innocent ignorance.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘springtide’.
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Times and Tides
Words pertaining to the oceans' tides; words describing seasons or portions of time that contain the searchable string *tide.
*tide, no-tide, tidewater, amphidromic, tide, tidal, cotidal, noontide, Yuletide, eventide, Whitsuntide, Passiontide and 99 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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spring phrases
spring has sprung
spring-ague, spring ambulance, spring and fall, spring-arbor, spring-balance, spring-bar, spring barley, spring-barrel, spring-beam, spring-beauty, spring-bed, spring-bell and 292 more...
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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I love you for your sound
loquacious, bumble, klaxon, rhythmicity, lexicon, ghastly, liquidation, labradorescence, springtide, foist, Herculean, cankerblossom and 77 more...
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The Waves
In the water. See also waves-and-waveforms.
rolling wave, mirobia, seiche, breaker, billow, tidal wave, wavelet, groundswell, comber, surge, swell, bow-wave and 40 more...
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Words to use more often
atavistic, nescient, risible, inveigh, decrepit, Parsimonious, elucidating, slake, inalienable, seamless, effulgence, nocturne and 11 more...
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