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Thanksgivingtide

Thanksgivingtide noun: the season around Thanksgiving.

Noun

Thanksgivingtide (countable and uncountable, plural Thanksgivingtides)

  1. (informal) The season around Thanksgiving.
    • Seven years had passed, and once more the Thanksgivingtide was in Mapleton.1876, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Chapter VII”, in Betty's bright idea; also, Deacon Pitkin's farm, and The first Christmas of New England, Thanksgiving Again
    • The wild winds croon of Thanksgivingtide1901 December 21, Helen Chase, “A Song of Thanksgiving”, in The Connecticut School Journal, volume 7, number 12, The Journal Publishing Co., page 14

Examples of Thanksgivingtide in a sentence

  • As by this bright fire we sit / At this Thanksgivingtide1911, P. F. Koontz, “Thanksgiving”, in Santa Fe Employes’ Magazine, volume 6, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, page 131:
  • This Thanksgivingtide recalls to our hearts the endless and undeserved mercies wherewith thou has blessed us.1967, James Archibald Jones, Prayers for the People: A Memorial Collection of Pulpit Prayers, John Knox Press, page 100:
  • Devotees of liberal college education attending the yearly Thanksgivingtide1975, Joe D. Thomas, Donald E. Morse, Sansculotte: A Nonknickerbocker History of the College English Association (1938–1975) : in Seven...
  • …a so-called rock opera to which Liz dragged me when we were in New York at Thanksgivingtide in 19712013 October 29, R. M. Koster, The Dissertation, Overlook Press, →ISBN:

Forms of Thanksgivingtide

pluralThanksgivingtides

Origin of Thanksgivingtide

From Thanksgiving + -tide (“period around a festival”).

Questions about Thanksgivingtide

What does Thanksgivingtide mean?
Thanksgivingtide means the season around Thanksgiving.
How do you use Thanksgivingtide in a sentence?
As by this bright fire we sit / At this Thanksgivingtide
What part of speech is Thanksgivingtide?
Thanksgivingtide is a noun.
What is the plural of Thanksgivingtide?
The plural of Thanksgivingtide is Thanksgivingtides.

Words near Thanksgivingtide in the dictionary

  1. Thanksgiving Day
  2. Thanksgiving Days
  3. Thanksgiving Thursday
  4. Thanksgiving Thursdays
  5. thanksgivings
  6. Thanksgivingtide
  7. Thanksgivingtides
  8. Thanksgivingy
  9. Thanksgivukah
  10. Thanksgivukkah
  11. thanksh

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