seedtime
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seedtime
before 1000; Middle English; Old English sǣdtīma. See seed, time
Example Sentences
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To understand it, we need to go back to what can accurately be termed the seedtime of sexism.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sunrise and sunset, seedtime and harvest, life, death, and the hereafter are some of the mysteries which have always puzzled the human mind.
From Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
Thus:— “How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not a seedtime of character?”
From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur
Vegetation is rapid in its growth, the sunshine being so nearly constant during the ten weeks which intervene between seedtime and harvest.
From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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