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Valentide

Valentide noun: the time of Saint Valentine's Day.

Noun

Valentide (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The time of Saint Valentine's Day.
    • For on a day, when Cupid kept his court, / As he is wont at each Saint Valentide, / Vnto the which all louers doe resort, / That of their loues successe they there may make report.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Seedlings of last Valentide, by Miss Isabel Jocelyn1847, The Columbian Magazine, volumes 7-8, page 285

Questions about Valentide

What does Valentide mean?
Valentide means the time of Saint Valentine's Day.
What part of speech is Valentide?
Valentide is a noun.

Words near Valentide in the dictionary

  1. valent
  2. Valenti
  3. valentia
  4. Valentia Island
  5. valentias
  6. Valentide
  7. Valentien
  8. Valentina
  9. valentine
  10. Valentine ant
  11. Valentine's

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