seedtime
English edit
Etymology edit
seed + time; compare Old Icelandic sáðtími. Compare also German Saatzeit "season for sowing seed" (15th cent. as satzijt), Old Icelandic sáðtíð "April", lit. "seed time".[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
seedtime (countable and uncountable, plural seedtimes)
- The time to sow seeds.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Seed time and Harvest, Heat and hoary Frost
Shall hold thir course
- (figurative) A time for new development.
Translations edit
the time to sow seeds
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Alternate forms edit
References edit
- ^ “seed time, n.”, in Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition, 2018