Noun: flood tide flúd tId
- 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 tide, leads on to fortune";
- flood, rising tide
- The highest point of anything conceived of as growing, developing or unfolding
"in the flood tide of his success";
- climax
Derived forms: flood tides
Type of: juncture, occasion, tide
Encyclopedia: Flood tide