A more or less definite point or season in the course of the year, of life, etc., usually defined by a prefixed word; as April-tide, June-tide; New-Y…

A point in the course of time or of a period or cycle. Cf. tide, n. 3a. A point or fixed part of the year, a season. In later use chiefly in time of…

The year considered in terms of the natural cycle of the seasons, or of the growth or planting of crops and vegetation.

Any one of the periods, longer or shorter, into which the year is naturally divided by the earth's changing position in regard to the sun, and which…