autumntide
English
Etymology
autumn + -tide
Noun
autumntide (plural autumntides)
- (dated, literary) Autumntime.
- 1890 November, Susie E. Kennedy, “Autumntide”, in Vick’s Monthly Magazine, volume 13, page 359:
- A beauty overlies— / Wond’rous as wide— / It is the golden glow / Of autumntide.
- 1901, Alfred H. Hyatt, “October”, in From a Middlesex Garden: A Book of Garden Thoughts, page 241:
- Autumntide is here again, / Fading leaf and falling rain, / Cloud-strewn sky and sodden plain
- 1923, Clovis G. Chappell, More Sermons on Biblical Characters, page 74:
- Appreciate the sunrises and the sunsets, the springtimes and the autumntides, the comforts of home, the handclasp of friends, the confidence of associates, the clinging love of the inner circle.
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