Why this word is great
AUTUMNTIDE — [Noun] The period or season of autumn, imbued with poetic resonance for its measured passage. From autumn (from Latin autumnus, the season) + -tide (from Old English tīd, meaning 'time, period'). Unlike 'autumn' (a general, calendrical fact) or 'harvest' (which centers on a utilitarian conclusion), autumntide evokes the season's full, slow, and melancholy measure. It is the precise amber of light that lasts for weeks in the oak woods, the papery rasp of leaves scuttling across a path, and the palpable thinning of the world as the sun bleeds early into a violet horizon—a quiet acknowledgment that time is not a point, but a process of luminous recession, a beautiful and inevitable ebb.