tiding
/ˈtaɪdɪŋ/
tiding noun: news; new information. Also the present participle and gerund of tide.
Noun
tiding (plural tidings)
- News; new information.
- For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,
What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis?
And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, Against Venemous Tongues […]; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC - […] Adoniiah sayde vnto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 1:42
- For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
Also used as
tiding is also the present participle and gerund of tide.
Examples of tiding in a sentence
- Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; […].1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton...
- But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and...
- Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin.19th century, “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”:
- In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex.2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57:
Forms of tiding
| plural | tidings |
|---|---|
| alternative form (dialectal) | tidind |
| alternative form (obsolete) | tidinde |
Origin of tiding
From a merger of Middle English tiding, tidinge, from Late Old English tīdung, with Middle English tidinde, tidende, from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi (“news, tidings”), both connected to Old English tīdan (“to befall; happen”). Though it is sometimes assumed that the form in -ind/-end is original and later assimilated to -ing, the cognates Dutch tijding and German Zeitung point to inheritance from Proto-West Germanic *tīdungō. By surface analysis, tide (“time”) + -ing.
Words formed from tiding
Phrases with tiding
Questions about tiding
- What does tiding mean?
- Tiding means news; new information.
- How do you use tiding in a sentence?
- Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; […].
- What part of speech is tiding?
- Tiding is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tiding?
- Tiding is pronounced /ˈtaɪdɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of tiding?
- The plural of tiding is tidings.
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