seedtime C2 Topic:Plants & Agriculture US /ˈsiːdˌtaɪm/ UK /ˈsiːdtaɪm/ See IPA manual Freq #1327786 Meanings 1 noun the season or time for sowing seed The soldiers returned home before seedtime so that the fields would not lie unsown. 2 noun figurative: an early period in which something begins to develop The first workshops proved to be the seedtime of a much larger reform movement. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · the season or time for... sowing seasonplanting time 2 noun · figurative: an early period... beginningformative period ↔ Opposites harvest Word family Related forms sowinggrowing seasonharvest Etymology From Middle English seed time and Old English saedtima, a compound of seed + time. The figurative sense compares the beginning of an undertaking with the sowing that precedes a harvest. Topics Plants & Agriculture External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # seedtime **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈsiːdˌtaɪm/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈsiːdtaɪm/ **Frequency rank:** 1327786 ## Meanings 1. the season or time for sowing seed 2. figurative: an early period in which something begins to develop ## Examples - The soldiers returned home before seedtime so that the fields would not lie unsown. - The first workshops proved to be the seedtime of a much larger reform movement. ## Synonyms - sowing season - planting time - beginning - formative period ## Antonyms - harvest ## Related Forms - sowing - growing season - harvest ## Etymology From Middle English seed time and Old English saedtima, a compound of seed + time. The figurative sense compares the beginning of an undertaking with the sowing that precedes a harvest. ## Topics - Plants & Agriculture markdown