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yeartide en · NOUN

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). Piecewise doublet of yahrzeit.

Meanings

1. (poetic) A specific time of year; season.
   • 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:
   • […] 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:
   • 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:
2. (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:

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yeartime