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Springtide

Definition: Springtide

Springtide

Noun

1. A swelling rush of anything; "he rose on the springtide of prosperity".

2. A greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "springtide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Antonym: neap tide (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Springtide

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Youth

Prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Springtide

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

springtide

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Springtide

Language Translations for "springtide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

baticë (afflux, flood tide, flow, flux, high tide, influx, tide, water). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فصل بهار (Springtime), جزرومدکامل . (various references)

   

German

  

lenz (spring, springtime), frühlingszeit (springtime). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έαρ, άνοιξη (spring, springtime). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingtidespray

   

Russian 

  

весна (spring, springtime). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

rabhart , reothairt. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sizigijska morska mena. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ilkbahar (spring, springtime, vernal), bahar (flower, may, spice, spring, springtime, youth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Springtide

Derivations

Words beginning with "springtide": springtides. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Springtide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Springette. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Springtide"

Words rhyming with "springtide" (pronounced 'Spring"tide'): Blastide, Mercaptide, Noontide, Opetide, Shrovetide, Twelfthtide, Yuletide. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Springtide

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: despiting, presiding, priesting, respiting.

-2 letters: desiring, dingiest, disinter, gripiest, igniters, inditers, inspired, intrepid, nitrides, pristine, residing, resiting, ridgiest, ringside, riptides, speiring, spiering, spirited, spirting, springed, sprinted, stingier, striding, stringed, striping, tiderips.

-3 letters: dieting, dingers, dingier, dingies, dipnets, dirties, ditsier, editing, engirds, gipsied, ignited, igniter, ignites, inditer, indites, insider, inspire, nidgets, nitride, nitrids, peising.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: springtides.

 

+2 letters: distempering, predestining, predigesting, predigestion, redepositing.

 

+3 letters: disrespecting, pharyngitides, predigestions.

 

+4 letters: fieldstripping, predesignating, predestinating, superintending, underpaintings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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