What does wintertide mean?
Wintertide means (archaic, literary) wintertime.
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/ˈwɪntə(ɹ)taɪd/ · noun
(archaic, literary) wintertime.
Shut out the flower-time, / Sunbeam and shower-time; / Make way for our time, / The winter-tide.
O winter tide, O winter tide, / Thy coming brings us sadness; / Afar are those we hold most dear, / Here men are strange, and skies are drear; […]
Thaw follows frost; hard on the heel of spring / Treads summer sure to die, for hard on hers / Comes autumn with his apples scattering; / Then back to wintertide, when nothing stirs.
[…] Figure Skating was actually the very first winter sport included at the summer Olympic games in London 1908. Its wintertide equivalence was eventually introduced in 1924.
So, grab yourself a spot of tea or a boozy hot chocolate, and celebrate the beginning of winter with these wintertide-inspired quotes.
Use wintertide when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wintertide means (archaic, literary) wintertime.
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Shut out the flower-time, / Sunbeam and shower-time; / Make way for our time, / The winter-tide.
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