Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)The time to sow seeds.

    the time during which seeds should be planted

  2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A time for new development.

    any time of new development

Examples

1 sentences

  1. All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

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Origin

From Middle English seed tyme, from Old English sǣdtīma (“time for sowing, season”), from

From Middle English seed tyme, from Old English sǣdtīma (“time for sowing, season”), from Proto-West Germanic *sādatīmō, from Proto-Germanic *sēdatīmô (“seedtime”), equivalent to seed + time. Cognate with Icelandic sáðtími (“sowing time, seedtime”).

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Forms

plural: seedtimes

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
seedA2seedlessseedlingC1seedyC2seeing
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