king tides
king tides is the plural of king tide.
Meaning of king tide
Noun
king tide (plural king tides)
- An unusually high spring tide that occurs during full moon in the summer and winter months (when the earth is at perihelion and the earth, moon and sun are aligned).
- As an illustration of our vulnerability, in 1990 and again in 1991, the largest king tides of the year in the Marshall Islands almost inundated Majuro′s urban area.1994, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, International Organizations and the Law of the Sea: Documentary Yearbook, 1992, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 373
Questions about king tides
- What is king tides the plural of?
- King tides is the plural of king tide.
Words near king tides in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: king tides (page history and authors); king 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: “king tides.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/king_tides. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.