English Explanatory Dictionary

-tide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Time, period (especially around an event or festival), season; often added to a festival name to indicate the period around that festival or a season beginning or ending with it.
suffix
  1. Used to form names of peptides and glycopeptides.

Pronunciation

/taɪd/

Word forms

-tide

Etymology

From Middle English -tide, -tyde, from Old English -tīd (in compounds), from tīd (“point or portion of time, due time, period, season; feast-day, canonical hour”); see tide.

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