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autumntide en · NOUN

Etymology

From autumn + -tide.

Meanings

1. (dated, literary) Autumntime.
   • Autumntide is here again, / Fading leaf and falling rain, / Cloud-strewn sky and sodden plain 1901, Alfred H. Hyatt, “October”, in From a Middlesex Garden: A Book of Garden Thoughts, page 241:
   • Appreciate the sunrises and the sunsets, the springtimes and the autumntides, the comforts of home, the handclasp of friends, the confidence of associates, the clinging love of the inner circle. 1923, Clovis G. Chappell, More Sermons on Biblical Characters, page 74:
   • A beauty overlies— / Wond’rous as wide— / It is the golden glow / Of autumntide. 1890 November, Susie E. Kennedy, “Autumntide”, in Vick’s Monthly Magazine, volume 13, page 359:

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