Season

[ˈsiː.zn̩] · noun

Meaning

Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season, depending on the climate..

Definitions by Sense

1. Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season, depending on the climate.
2. A period of the year when something particular happens.
3. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
4. (pars pro toto, metonymic) A year, but with emphasis on the most important part of the year in context, such as the months when plants or animals grow and reproduce.
5. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
6. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
7. (Canada, US, Australia, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
8. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.

Example Sentences

we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, / But the wine and the song, / like the seasons, have all gone.

mating season

the football season

the holiday season

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

Curry, a four-time NBA champion with the Warriors, played for the Wildcats for three seasons between 2006 and 2009, where he was twice named conference player of the year. […] Curry has been named NBA regular season MVP twice and is an 11-time All Star.

He seldom was seen in the office himself, but occasionally a paragraph in the paper recorded that his yacht had touched at Mentone and that he had been seen at the Monte Carlo tables, or that he was expected in Leicestershire for the season.

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• seasons
• seasoning
• seasoned

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