flood-tide

Nouns

  • (n) the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
    • the climax of the artist's career
    • in the flood tide of his success
    climax,
  • (n) 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" -Shakespeare
    rising tide, flood,

Synonyms

climax rising tide flood

Antonyms

ebbtide

Words of close approximity