Word.ws English Dictionary

half-tide

half-tide noun: the tide halfway between flood and ebb.

Noun

half-tide

  1. The tide halfway between flood and ebb.

Adjective

half-tide (not comparable)

  1. Left dry during such a tide.
    • "[...] her middle structure was like a half-tide rock awash upon a coast."1919, Joseph Conrad, Typhoon

Questions about half-tide

What does half-tide mean?
Half-tide means the tide halfway between flood and ebb.
What part of speech is half-tide?
Half-tide can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near half-tide in the dictionary

  1. half-suits
  2. half-swastika
  3. half-swastikas
  4. half-term
  5. half-terms
  6. half-tide
  7. half-timber
  8. half-timbered
  9. half-timbering
  10. half-timberings
  11. half-timbers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: half-tide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “half-tide.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/half-tide. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.