rising tide

1. 1.

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

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

   Synonymsflood tideflood

   Broadertide

Questions about rising tide

What does rising tide mean?

rising tide means "the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)".

What is another word for rising tide?

Close synonyms include flood tide, flood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rising tide a common word?

rising tide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.