Seedtime

//ˈsiːdˌtaɪm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The time to sow seeds. countable, uncountable

    "Seed time and Harvest, Heat and hoary Frost Shall hold thir course"

  2. 2
    the time during which seeds should be planted wordnet
  3. 3
    A time for new development. countable, figuratively, uncountable
  4. 4
    any time of new development wordnet

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"All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease."

Etymology

From Middle English seed tyme, from Old English sǣdtīma (“time for sowing, season”), from Proto-West Germanic *sādatīmō, from Proto-Germanic *sēdatīmô (“seedtime”), equivalent to seed + time. Cognate with Icelandic sáðtími (“sowing time, seedtime”). Compare also West Frisian siedtiid (“seedtime”), Dutch zaaitijd (“sowing time, seedtime”), German Saatzeit (“season for sowing seed”), Swedish såddtid (“sowing time, seedtime”), Faroese sáðtíð (“sowing time”), Old Norse sáðtíð (“April”, literally “seed time”).

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