Yeartide

Origin

From year + tide("time, occasion"). Compare West Frisian jiertiid ("season"), Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde ("season"), German Jahreszeit ("season"), Swedish årstid ("season"), Icelandic árstíð ("season"). Compare also yahrzeit.

Full definition of yeartide

Noun

1. A specific time of year; season.
• 1907, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Young Israel:... And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling.
• 1958, American Jewish Congress, Judaism:Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide of days, a yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?
• 1985, Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness:Peter & 2-Js & I joined in a flower bunch, besides which I also sent her a 15 bob sheaf on my own, with gum-leafage — the sole homish stuff havable here at this yeartide — there among.
2. A specific time each year; anniversary.
• 1921, Emma Kenyon Parrish, The golden island: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!
• 2006, Gene Wolfe, The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight:There will be a tourney in three days, as always at Yeartide. You could enter those events at which you may excel.