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Eastertide

Historical Festival
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The season or period around Easter, especially the days following Easter Sunday.

Detailed Definition
“Eastertide” is an older seasonal term formed from Easter and the suffix “-tide,” meaning a period or season. In the poem, the cherry tree is imagined as wearing white blossoms in keeping with the Easter season.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Wearing white for Eastertide” links the season with spring, resurrection, and ceremonial dress; Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Easter” poems use natural renewal to suggest spiritual rebirth; “At Eastertide, daffodils lifted their gold through churchyard grass” gives the festival a visual setting; a contemporary poem might place Eastertide beside family meals, migration, or secular springtime
Additional Notes
The quoted word “Eastertide” is a specialized, somewhat archaic name for the Easter season that many modern readers may need to look up.; Found in the poem, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now by A.E.Housman
Other Meanings of “Eastertide”
Also Known As
Paschal season Resurrection period Spring festival
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