yeartide
nounEtymology 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). Piecewise doublet of yahrzeit.
- […] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling.1907, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Young Israel:
- And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep!1921, Emma Kenyon Parrish, The Golden Island, page 8:
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- Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide of days, a yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?1958, American Jewish Congress, Judaism:
- 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.1985, Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters of Percy Grainger, 1901–1914:
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Nonstandard, Rare A specific time each year; anniversary.
- A-dream, we rock at home. So, lasting-sweet is sleep: With sails forever furled. Forgot is all the world, And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep!1921, Emma Kenyon Parrish, The Golden Island:
- There will be a tourney in three days, as always at Yeartide. You could enter those events at which you may excel.2006, Gene Wolfe, The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight:
- Related terms
- yeartime