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-tide

/taɪd/

-tide suffix: 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)

-tide

  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 (2)

-tide

  1. Used to form names of peptides and glycopeptides.

Origin of -tide

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.

From peptide, glycopeptide.

Questions about -tide

What does -tide mean?
-tide means 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.
What part of speech is -tide?
-tide is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -tide?
-tide is pronounced /taɪd/.

Words near -tide in the dictionary

  1. -thon
  2. -thrin
  3. -thymia
  4. -tiazem
  5. -tic
  6. -tide
  7. -tidine
  8. -ties
  9. -time
  10. -tinib
  11. -tion

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