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English
Etymology
From 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
Noun
seedtime (countable and uncountable, plural seedtimes)
- The time to sow seeds.
1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →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.
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References
- ^ “seed time, n.”, in Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition, 2018