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St. Andrewstide

St. Andrewstide proper noun: the feast day of Andrew the Apostle, 30 November, or the period around it.

Proper noun

St. Andrewstide

  1. The feast day of Andrew the Apostle, 30 November, or the period around it.
    • Here, too, is enlightenment for readers of those recondite accounts of the Eton Wall Game which appear in The Times at St. Andrewstide.1950, The Tablet, volume 196, page 72
    • Although right up to St Andrewstide (30 November) 1075 concord had prevailed […], at Worms the bishops had suddenly and unwarrantedly turned upon the pope.1998, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, page 216

Forms of St. Andrewstide

alternative formSt Andrewstide

Origin of St. Andrewstide

From St. Andrew + -s- + -tide.

Questions about St. Andrewstide

What does St. Andrewstide mean?
St. Andrewstide means the feast day of Andrew the Apostle, 30 November, or the period around it.
What part of speech is St. Andrewstide?
St. Andrewstide is a proper noun.

Words near St. Andrewstide in the dictionary

  1. St. Andrew's
  2. St. Andrew's Cross
  3. St. Andrew's Crosses
  4. St. Andrew's Day
  5. St. Andrews
  6. St. Andrewstide
  7. St. Anthony
  8. St. Anthony's cross
  9. St. Anthony's crosses
  10. St. Anthony's fire
  11. St. Anthony's Turnip

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