birthtide means the time or season of one's birth, birthtime. It carries an Arena rating of 1621, earned across 58 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, birthtide ranks #1,122 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #2,053 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #2,605 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #4,339 of 17,143 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words.
Why “birthtide” is a great word
BIRTHTIDE — [Noun] The time or season of one's birth. From Middle English burdtide or burð tid, equivalent to birth + tide (in the sense of "time, season"). Unlike "birthday," which marks a calendrical anniversary, or "nativity," which implies cosmic or theological circumstance, birthtide is the atmospheric vessel for the event itself. It is the particular slant of autumn light, the scent of thawing earth, the heavy, cicada-laden air of the world's specific weather into which a life was first breathed—the silent, annual return of the very air that first filled your lungs.
Etymology
From Middle English burdtide, burð tid, equivalent to birth + tide (“time, season”).
noun
- The time or season of one's birth, birthtime.
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