HOW TO PRONOUNCE
tide
/taɪd/
Press play to hear how to pronounce tide.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does tide mean?
noun
- The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
- The associated flow of water.
- Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
More meanings (11)
noun
- A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
- (figuratively) The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- The period of twelve hours.
- (obsolete) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
- (archaic) A time.
- (archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier.
verb
- To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
- To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
- To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
- (rare) To pour a tide or flood.
- (obsolete) To happen, occur.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/taɪd/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
And think how such an apprehension May turn the tide of fearful faction, And breed a kind of question in our cause.
This engulfment is the sepulchre which assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a living man.
More book examples (3)
She was so alarmed at his silence that she murmured something about lending him sufficient money to tide over the perilous fortnight.
We looked at each other, and then we looked at the tide, oozing in smoothly, higher and higher, over the Shivering Sand.
It was handed to him while he was in full tide of gay and successful conversation, in a whole room-full of company.