tide – English noun declension

English noun forms of tide

Noun: tide
Singulartide
Pluraltides

Sample Sentences

  • The Bristol Channel has some of the world's largest tides.
  • A lot of driftwood was brought in on the tide.
  • As well as sea tides, there are much smaller land tides.
  • By far the largest tides on Europa are those caused by the gravitational attraction of Jupiter.
  • The sewer burst, and a tide of sewage poured into nearby properties.
  • A tide of people crossed over the border.
  • We've encountered a tide of problems.
  • Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide. [c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 88, column 1:]
  • The tide of public opinion has turned.
  • There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune […] [1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:]
  • This is the crap our children are learning / But oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning [1987, Roger Waters, “The Tide Is Turning”, in Radio K.A.O.S.:]
  • Can't you see that the tide is turning [1988, Eddy Grant, “Gimme Hope Jo'anna”:]
  • Ahead of a summit on Thursday evening in Brussels, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said the tide was turning. [2026 June 18, Peter Beaumont, Pjotr Sauer, Jennifer Rankin, “Moscow oil refinery struck in Ukraine’s biggest air raid on city since start of war”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • [...] and rest their weary limbs a tide. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza xxix:]
  • Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde [1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:]
  • at the tide / Of Christ his birth [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII:]
  • What is singular too, the spademen seem to work lazily; they will not work double-tides, even for offer of more wages, though their tide is but seven hours[.] [1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):]
  • The doctor's no good this tide.
  • Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moontide, harvesttide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumntide etc.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
5. Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis
6. Proto-Germanic *tīdiz
7. Proto-West Germanic *tīdi
8. Old English tīd
9. Middle English tyde
10. English tide
11. Inherited from Middle English tyde, from Old English tīd, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis. Related to time.
12. Cognate with Dutch tijd (“time”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tid (“time”), Faroese and Icelandic tíð (“time”). See: Dutch Nouns 'tijd', German Nouns 'Zeit'.

Verbs referencing "tide"

German Nouns Zeit, German Nouns Tide.