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Lide

/laɪd/

Lide proper noun: march (third month of the Gregorian calendar).

Proper noun (1)

Lide (uncountable)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
    • "Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play."1686-1687, John Aubrey, edited by James Britten, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (Lansdowne MS. 231), London: W. Satchell, Peyton, and Co., published 1881, page 13
    • I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: 'Ducks wānt lay until they've a drink'd lide water.'1866, Thomas Q. Couch, “Popular Antiquities: Tinner Folk Lore”, in Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, number VI, Truro: Royal Institution of Cornwall, page 132

Proper noun (2)

Lide (plural Lides)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Lide

pluralLides
alternative form (obsolete)Leede

Origin of Lide

Inherited from Middle English Lyde, from Old English hlȳda, from hlȳdan (“to make noise”) + -a (agentive suffix), literally “noise-maker”; thus the only Germanic month name to survive in Modern English. Compare loud, and more distantly listen, slave.

From the German surname, possibly Americanized from Leid.

Questions about Lide

What does Lide mean?
Lide means march (third month of the Gregorian calendar).
What part of speech is Lide?
Lide is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Lide?
Lide is pronounced /laɪd/.

Words near Lide in the dictionary

  1. liddle
  2. Liddle syndrome
  3. Liddle's syndrome
  4. Liddles
  5. Liddy
  6. Lide
  7. Lidepla
  8. Lides
  9. lidflower
  10. lidflowers
  11. lidful

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