FLOOD TIDE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Example:

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

Synonyms:

flood; flood tide; rising tide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("flood tide" is a kind of...):

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

Antonym:

ebbtide (the tide while water is flowing out)

Meaning:

The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

Example:

in the flood tide of his success

Synonyms:

climax; flood tide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("flood tide" is a kind of...):

juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)