HIGH TIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high tide mean? 

• HIGH TIDE (noun)
  The noun HIGH TIDE has 1 sense:

1. the tide when the water is highest

  Familiarity information: HIGH TIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH TIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tide when the water is highest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

high tide; high water; highwater

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high tide"):

direct tide (the occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side)

neap; neap tide (a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon)

springtide (a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons)

Antonym:

low tide (the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide)

 Context examples 

Between the wharf and the bedroom window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A carnivorous animal living on a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his life, overspilling with vigor and virility.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was now nearly the hour of high tide, but the waves were so great that in their troughs the shallows of the shore were almost visible, and the schooner, with all sails set, was rushing with such speed that, in the words of one old salt, she must fetch up somewhere, if it was only in hell.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)