Season

Quick meaning: Season is a noun meaning A period of the year when something particular happens.

Meaning

A period of the year when something particular happens.

More Meanings

1. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
2. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
3. 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.
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. (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.
6. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
7. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.

Example Sentences

mating season

the holiday season

the football season

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

Word Forms

• seasons
• seasoning
• seasoned

Synonyms for season

Depending on context, synonyms include wont, desiccate, dehydrate, exiccate, fordry, age.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include temper, flavor, flavour, harden, seasonal, weather.

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