Meanings
plural yeartimes
- A time of the year; a season.
There is a “Water Falls” which spills and trickles depending upon the yeartime one visits its huge boulders.
2011, Alaya Chadwick, Alaya's Fables: Tales That Transform & Awaken3 more examples
Asters. My dearest blossoms of the yeartime hold Scant eulogy, save wandering children's meed — All scentless [...]
1910, Sallie Hoffman Perry, Poems[...], till another yeartime came to the yards of men, as still today the weather glory-bright always keeps its seasons.
1965, Rowland L. Collins, BeowulfSpring that deceive and plugs that won't spark where we made not fierce summer but October soft light lit by flashes I recognize as aurora borealis, a yeartime of loving out of a fled, raw afternoon.
1985, Maureen Duffy, Collected poems - A year's time; the space of time equivalent to a year.
[...] even beetle — these thousands of pads in a yeartime of life — had matted the moss and nettle, [...]
1953, Jack Clement Badcock, The truants
comparative more yeartime · superlative most yeartime
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Englishyer tyme“yearly commemoration”
- Englishyeartime
From year + time, or revived from Middle English yer tyme (“yearly commemoration”) (which did not directly survive into Modern English). Compare Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season, time of year”), Swedish årstid (“season”), English yeartide.
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