flood tide
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
the climax of the artist's career
Types & categories
- juncture hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
Types & categories
- tide hypernym
Related & opposite
- ebbtide antonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | climax |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | climactic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | juncture |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | ebbtide |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | tide |