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Shrove-tide

Shrove-tide is the alternative form of Shrovetide.

Meaning of Shrovetide

Noun

Shrovetide (plural Shrovetides)

  1. The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.
    Synonyms:
    fastens, fasterns-een, fastgang-tide

Forms of Shrove-tide

pluralShrove-tides

Questions about Shrove-tide

What is Shrove-tide the alternative form of?
Shrove-tide is the alternative form of Shrovetide.

Words near Shrove-tide in the dictionary

  1. Shrove Sundays
  2. Shrove Tuesday
  3. Shrove Tuesdays
  4. Shrove-cake
  5. Shrove-cakes
  6. Shrove-tide
  7. shroved
  8. shroves
  9. Shrovetide
  10. Shrovetide football
  11. Shrovetides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shrove-tide (page history and authors); Shrovetide (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.

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