seedtime

[seed-tahym]

noun

1. the season for sowing seed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seedtime¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English sǣdtīma. See seed, time

Example Sentences

To understand it, we need to go back to what can accurately be termed the seedtime of sexism.

From Salon

“While the earth remaineth,” he decided, according to the King James Bible, “seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

From The New Yorker

Heno was said to gather the clouds and pour out the warm rain; he was the patron of husbandry, and was invoked at seedtime and harvest.

From Project Gutenberg

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

From Project Gutenberg

In this way the seasons, as well as the elements of the soil, are so modified and vitalized as to give to man seedtime and harvest, and needful food to every "living and creeping thing."

From Project Gutenberg