high tide

See also: hightide

English

Alternative forms

• hightide, high-tide

Pronunciation

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Noun

high tide (countable and uncountable, plural high tides)

1. The natural tide at its highest level for a particular tidal cycle at a certain place.

   Synonyms: flood tide, rising tide

   Antonym: low tide

2. The time of day when the sea has risen to its highest level.
3. (figuratively) A climax, culminating point or phase.
4. (euphemistic) Synonym of menstruation
   • 2006 Mar. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 6:

     Do you not like Aunt Irma? I've got an aunt like that.
     It's my term for... my time of the month.
     What time of the month? The weekend?
     No... you know, it... it's high tide.
     But we're not on the coast.

5. (obsolete, rare) A great festival.

Translations

the natural tide at its highest level

• Belarusian: прылі́ў m (prylíŭ)
• Bikol Central: taob (bcl)
• Bulgarian: прили́в (bg) m (prilív)
• Catalan: plenamar (ca) f, marea alta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高潮 (zh) (gāocháo)

• Czech: příliv (cs) m
• Danish: flod (da) c, højvande (da) n
• Dutch: hoog tij n, hoog water n, hoogwater (nl) n, vloed (nl)
• Esperanto: alta tajdo
• Estonian: tõus
• Finnish: korkeavesi, vuoksi (fi)
• French: marée haute (fr) f, mer haute f, pleine mer (fr) f
• Galician: marea alta f, marea chea f, preamar (gl) f
• Georgian: მაღალი წყალი (maɣali c̣q̇ali), მოქცევა (mokceva), ზღვის მოქცევის უმაღლესი წერტილი (zɣvis mokcevis umaɣlesi c̣erṭili), წყლის უმაღლესი დონე მოქცევისას (c̣q̇lis umaɣlesi done mokcevisas)
• German: Flut (de) f, Hochwasser (de) n
• Greek: πλημμυρίδα (el) f (plimmyrída)
• Hindi: उच्च ज्वारभाटा (ucc jvārbhāṭā)
• Hungarian: dagály (hu)
• Icelandic: flóð (is) n
• Ilocano: panagadalem ti baybay, atab
• Irish: lán mara m, taoide lán f, barr taoide m, ionradh ard m
• Italian: alta marea (it) f, acqua alta f
• Japanese: 高潮 (ja) (こうちょう, kōchō), 満潮 (ja) (まんちょう, manchō), 満ち潮 (ja) (みちしお, michishio)
• Korean: 고조(高潮) (ko) (gojo), 만조(滿潮) (ko) (manjo)
• Latvian: paisums m
• Macedonian: пли́ма f (plíma), при́лив m (príliv)
• Maori: tai pari
• Norman: haut dg'ieau m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flo (no) f, høyvann n, høgvann n, høgvatn n, høyvatn n

  Nynorsk: flod f, høgvatn n

• Okinawan: 満潮 (みちす, michisu), 満潮 (みちしゅ, michishu)
• Persian: مهکشند (mehkešand)
• Polish: przypływ (pl) m
• Portuguese: maré alta
• Romanian: maree înaltă f
• Russian: прили́в (ru) m (prilív), полово́дье (ru) n (polovódʹje), наивы́сший у́ровень прили́ва n (naivýsšij úrovenʹ prilíva)
• Scottish Gaelic: muir-làn m, làn-mara m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плима f, прилив m

  Roman: plima (sh) f, priliv (sh) m

• Slovak: príliv m
• Slovene: plima (sl) f
• Southern Kalinga: lumina
• Spanish: marea alta f, pleamar (es), plenamar f
• Swedish: högvatten (sv) n, flod (sv) c
• Tagalog: taog, taib (tl), taeb, laki ng tubig
• Tok Pisin: haiwara
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: прили́в m (prylýv)
• Welsh: penllanw m
• Yámana: yaraku
• Yonaguni: 満潮 (んてぃす, ntisu)

the time of day when the sea has risen to its highest level

• Czech: doba (cs) f přílivu (cs) m
• Danish: flod (da) c, højvande (da) n
• Dutch: hoog tij n, hoog water n, hoogwater (nl) n
• Finnish: korkeavesi, vuoksi (fi)
• French: mer haute f
• Georgian: ზღვის მაქსიმალური მოქცევა (zɣvis maksimaluri mokceva), ზღვის მაქსიმალური მოქცევის პერიოდი (zɣvis maksimaluri mokcevis ṗeriodi)
• Hungarian: dagály (hu)
• Macedonian: пли́ма f (plíma), при́лив m (príliv)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flotid m or f, høyvann n, høgvann n, høgvatn n, høyvatn n

  Nynorsk: flodtid f, høgvatn n

• Russian: прили́в (ru) m (prilív), полово́дье (ru) n (polovódʹje), наивы́сший у́ровень прили́ва n (naivýsšij úrovenʹ prilíva)
• Scottish Gaelic: muir-làn m
• Spanish: pleamar (es) f, marea alta f, plenamar f
• Swedish: flod (sv) c

climax, culminating point or phase

• Dutch: climax (nl), hoogtij (nl) n, hoogtepunt (nl) n, ^{(please verify)} hoogdag (nl) m, ^{(please verify)} hoogdagen (nl) m
• Polish: przypływ (pl) m
• Russian: кульминация (ru) f (kulʹminacija)

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• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} baticë (sq) f