floodtime

floodtime noun: a time (often an annual season) during which an area is flooded; the season when a river floods its banks.

Noun

floodtime (plural floodtimes)

A time (often an annual season) during which an area is flooded; the season when a river floods its banks.
- Now, on the way, he came to a big, rushing river, which neither he nor his army could cross, for it was flood-time and the water was full of dangerous whirlpools, where nixies and water wraiths lived, always ready to drown men.1922, Flora Annie Steel, “Nix Naught Nothing”, in English Fairy Tales, Macmillan, page 180
- In good seasons the stream must have been a fair little river, and during flood time it had spread all over the flat.1944, Zane Grey, chapter 28, in The Wilderness Trek

The storm that raged in him to-night could not uproot this hatred, the mightiest tree in all John’s country, all that remained to-night, in this, John’s floodtime.1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):
Each year, the river brought its deposit of rich, red silt at floodtime.1959, Theodora Kroeber, The Inland Whale, University of California Press, page 194:

What does floodtime mean?: Floodtime means a time (often an annual season) during which an area is flooded; the season when a river floods its banks.
How do you use floodtime in a sentence?: The storm that raged in him to-night could not uproot this hatred, the mightiest tree in all John’s country, all that remained to-night, in this, John’s floodtime.
What part of speech is floodtime?: Floodtime is a noun.
What is the plural of floodtime?: The plural of floodtime is floodtimes.

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