high tide

noun

1. the tide at its highest level of elevation.
2. the time of high water.
3. a culminating point:

   the high tide of the revolution.

high tide

noun

1. 1. the tide at its highest level
   2. the time at which it reaches this
2. a culminating point

high tide

1. The tide when it is at its highest level at a particular time and place. The highest tides reached under normal meteorological conditions (the spring tides ) take place when the Moon and Sun are directly aligned with respect to Earth. High tides are less extreme (the neap tides ) when the Moon and Sun are at right angles. Storms and other meteorological conditions can greatly affect the height of the tides as well.
2. See more at tide
3. The time at which a high tide occurs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high tide¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English

Example Sentences

Along coastlines, sea level rise has boosted high tides and increased the occurrence of sunny-day flooding.

From Washington Post

That works for a hot minute — until natural ocean currents, storms and high tides swallow that sand away.

From Voice of San Diego

Sunny day floods—which occur when high tides spill into roads and towns—are already a massive problem in the US.

From Popular-Science

The porous limestone underneath Miami allows the rising seas to filter up through the ground, causing flooding during high tides even on sunny days.

From Washington Post

The Atlantic Ocean, visible from your raised ground just beyond the dunes, a mere gap wedge away at high tide, laps at the shore.

From Washington Post

If you are in your late 50s, you are probably too young to remember the high tide of Kennedy-Johnson big government liberalism.

From The Daily Beast

According to François Dosse, the author of a monumental History of Structuralism, 1966 marked the high tide of this new paradigm.

From The Daily Beast

The surge was coming not at high tide as it had during the hurricane, but as the tide was falling.

From The Daily Beast

Before high tide there were waves crashing against the building.

From The Daily Beast

Michael Daly reports on the damaging high tide—and the reports of building collapses.

From The Daily Beast

It occupies a commanding position on a point of land extending far into the sea and almost surrounded by water at high tide.

From Project Gutenberg

Places on the Alaskan coast, laid bare at high tide, are said to have yielded as much as $12,000 per cubic yard.

From Project Gutenberg

You will think that you would rather elocute The High Tide than even to have written it.

From Project Gutenberg

The walk led them by the sea-side, over the sands, and past the ruin, at the foot of which the waves broke at high tide.

From Project Gutenberg

The King thereafter had them all taken out to a rock which was covered by the sea at high-tide and there let them be bound.

From Project Gutenberg

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