noun A particular time of year; a season.
- Peter & 2-Js & I joined in a flower bunch, besides which I also sent her a 15 bob sheaf on my own, with gum-leafage — the sole homish stuff havable here at this yeartide — there among.
— Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus (1985)
- Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide of days, a yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?
— American Jewish Congress, Judaism (1958)
noun A date that comes round every year; an anniversary.
- There will be a tourney in three days, as always at Yeartide. You could enter those events at which you may excel.
— Gene Wolfe, The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight (2006)
