tide

1. 1.

   rise or move forward

   “surging waves”

   Synonymssurge

   Antonymsebb

   Broaderrun
2. 2.

   cause to float with the tide

   Broaderfloat
3. 3.

   be carried with the tide

   Broaderfloat

Other forms of tide

plural

tides·

past tense

tided·

present participle

tiding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tide

What does tide mean?

tide means "the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tide?

tide has 1 syllable: tide. In IPA it is /ˈtaɪd/.

What is another word for tide?

Close synonyms include lunar time period, surge. 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.

What is the opposite of tide?

The recorded antonyms are ebb.

Is tide a common word?

tide is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tide?

6 words rhyme with tide. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.