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Yeartide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A specific time of year; season. poetic

    "[…] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling."

  2. 2
    A specific time each year; anniversary. nonstandard, rare

    "A-dream, we rock at home. So, lasting-sweet is sleep: With sails forever furled. Forgot is all the world, And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep!"

Etymology

From year + -tide (“time, occasion”). Compare West Frisian jiertiid (“season”), Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season”), Swedish årstid (“season”), Icelandic árstíð (“season”), Yiddish יאָרצײַט (yortsayt). Piecewise doublet of yahrzeit.

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