FLOOD TIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flood tide mean? 

• FLOOD TIDE (noun)
  The noun FLOOD TIDE has 2 senses:

1. the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

2. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

  Familiarity information: FLOOD TIDE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOOD TIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

climax; flood tide

Context example:

in the flood tide of his success

Hypernyms ("flood tide" is a kind of...):

juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

flood; flood tide; rising tide

Context example:

a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune

Hypernyms ("flood tide" is a kind of...):

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

Antonym:

ebbtide (the tide while water is flowing out)