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

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

From The Daily Beast

Przedwiośnie (Seedtime in English translation), by Stefan Żeromski.

From The Daily Beast

The 150 inhabitants are at home only at seedtime and harvest; the rest of the year they are away, tending their sheep.

From Project Gutenberg

Then he showed that he was ready for a new subject by asking his uncle what the farmer did between seedtime and harvest.

From Project Gutenberg

When both work together, wealth is produced, but the seedtime of abstract investigation always precedes the harvest.

From Project Gutenberg

By no means: he would go from London to Edinburgh between seedtime and harvest.

From Project Gutenberg

The sinner hates the thought; he would that his entire life be a seedtime; but it cannot be.

From Project Gutenberg