foretide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An early tide (tidal surge).
noun
A prior or previous period of time.
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"
- "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."