Meanings
plural foretides
- figurativelyrareliteralAn early tide (tidal surge).
He and the other leaders directed the crowds into the mass meeting at St. James Baptist Church, which was swamped long before nightfall. The movement was becoming a tempest. A foretide of one event churned into the backwash of others […]
1989, Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, page 771 - rareA prior or previous period of time.
Older farmers coming from the East in the foretide of settlement, shook their heads dubiously at the idea of cropping the same land year after year to the one crop, corn.
1937, Walter V. Kell, Grover F. Brown, Strip Cropping for Soil ConservationSynonyms: foretime
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA prior or previous period of time.
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