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foretides

foretides is the plural of foretide.

Meaning of foretide

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

Questions about foretides

What is foretides the plural of?
Foretides is the plural of foretide.

Words near foretides in the dictionary

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

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