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foretide

foretide noun: an early tide (tidal surge).

Noun

foretide (plural foretides)

  1. (figuratively, rare, literal) An early tide (tidal surge).
    • He and the other leaders directed the crowds into the mass meeting at St. James Baptist Church, which was swamped long before nightfall. The movement was becoming a tempest. A foretide of one event churned into the backwash of others […]1989, Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, page 771
  2. (rare) A prior or previous period of time.
    • Older farmers coming from the East in the foretide of settlement, shook their heads dubiously at the idea of cropping the same land year after year to the one crop, corn.1937, Walter V. Kell, Grover F. Brown, Strip Cropping for Soil Conservation
    Synonyms:
    foretime

Synonyms of foretide

Forms of foretide

pluralforetides

Origin of foretide

From fore- + tide.

Questions about foretide

What does foretide mean?
Foretide means an early tide (tidal surge).
What part of speech is foretide?
Foretide is a noun.
What is the plural of foretide?
The plural of foretide is foretides.

Words near foretide in the dictionary

  1. forethroat
  2. forethrown
  3. foretibia
  4. foretibiae
  5. foretibial
  6. foretide
  7. foretides
  8. foretime
  9. foretimes
  10. foretoken
  11. foretokened

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