Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The winter season; winter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Winter time.

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  • noun archaic wintertime

Etymologies

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winter +‎ tide

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Examples

  • If it only didn't snow so much here in the wintertide, Garen would even be perfectly willing to winter here if he had to, though Nerendale, being closer to Armethalieh, was naturally better.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Doubt us not: Come the wintertide, you all shall die, and die you will.

    Satire: Department Of Evil: 'All Of You Must Die' William Harryman 2007

  • Þyslic me is gesewen, þu cyning, þis andwearde lif manna on eorðan to wiðmetenesse þære tide, þe us uncuð is, swylc swa þu æt swæsendum sitte mid þinum ealdormannum & þegnum on wintertide, & sie fyr onælæd & þin heall gewyrmed, & hit rine & sniwe & styrme ute; cume an spearwa & hrædlice þæt hus þurhfleo, cume þurh oþre duru in þurh oþre ut gewite.

    sparrow in the banquet hall... not asakiyume 2007

  • If it only didn't snow so much here in the wintertide, Garen would even be perfectly willing to winter here if he had to, though Nerendale, being closer to Armethalieh, was naturally better.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • Now, when that same wintertide had passed, and when the new buds were showing on the trees, Olaf Triggvison arrayed his ships ready for the sea.

    Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

  • For the rest of that wintertide the men of Jomsburg accordingly bestirred themselves in making preparations for the journey.

    Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

  • So when Geira heard that alien folk were come into Wendland, with a great fleet of viking ships, and that the chief of them was a young man of unusual prowess and noble mien, she sent friendly messengers to the coast and bade the newcomers be her guests that wintertide, for the summer was now far spent, and the weather hard and stormy.

    Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

  • "All this, though in the chances of war you read it not till wintertide, was told you at Rouen this first day of September 1792."

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "All this, though in the chances of war you read it not till wintertide, was told you at Rouen this first day of September 1792."

    The Battle of the Strong — Volume 1 A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "All this, though in the chances of war you read it not till wintertide, was told you at Rouen this first day of September 1792."

    The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

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