Season
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English
Noun
Season (plural Seasons)- Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
- A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season, rainy season, football season.
- (cricket) the period over which a series of Test matches are played
- (North America) 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.
- (obsolete) That which gives relish.
Verb
Season (third-person singular simple present seasons, present participle seasoning, simple past and past participle seasoned)
- (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
- (transitive) To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
- (transitive) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
- (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
- (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
Adjectives for Season
singing; sickly; glorious; buried; tempestuous; heated; due; ordinary; rainy; favored; sultry; propitious; modish; virtuous; unapparent; festive; winter; holiday; gala; due; faithful; adverse; gentle; true; ominous; pestilential; youthful; beneficent; suitable; advancing; autumnal; convenient; unchanged.
Verbs for Season
adapt to—; divide into—s; fill—; inaugurate—; launch—; measure—s; —s alternate; —advances; —clothes; —creeps along; —develops; —drifts by; —fades; —flowers; —lapses; —matures; —s merge; —proceeds; —progresses; —promises; —ripens; —rolls around; — vary; —waxes.
Adverbs for Season
pungently; deftly; professionally; skillfully; richly; deliciously.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
abate, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, adjust to, age, alter, anhydrate, assuage, attain majority, available, beautify, besprinkle, blast-freeze, bloom, box in, break, break in, breathe, brew, brine, case harden, circumscribe, color, come of age, come to maturity, condition, confirm, corn, cultivate, cure, day, decoct, dehydrate, desiccate, develop, diminish, discipline, domesticate, domesticize, dredge, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, dye, edible, elaborate, embalm, embellish, enliven, entincture, establish, evaporate, evolve, familiarize, fateful moment, finish, fit, fix, flavor, fledge, flower, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, gentle, grow, grow up, habituate, harden, hedge, hedge about, hour, housebreak, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, instant, instill, interval, inure, irradiate, jerk, juncture, kairos, kipper, leave the nest, leaven, limit, marinade, marinate, mature, mellow, minute, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, moment, moment of truth, mummify, narrow, naturalize, occasion, opportunity, orient, orientate, palliate, penetrate, pep up, pepper, perfect, period, permeate, pervade, pickle, point, polish, pregnant moment, prepare, preservatize, psychological moment, qualify, quick-freeze, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, ready, reduce, refine, refrigerate, regulate by, restrain, restrict, ripe, ripen, salt, saturate, sauce, savor, school, seasonable, seasoned, set conditions, set limits, settle down, smoke, smoke-cure, soften, space, span, spell, spice, stage, steel, steep, stretch, stuff, suffuse, tame, temper, term, time, time lag, tincture, tinge, toga virilis, toughen, train, transfuse, while, wont
Etymology
Middle English sesoun, seson "time of the year" from Old French seson, seison "time of sowing, seeding" from Latin satiōnem, accusative of satiō "act of sowing, planting" from satum, past participle of serere "to sow, plant" from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan "to sow", Old English sǣd "seed". Displaced native Middle English sele "season" (from Old English sǣl "season, time, occasion"), Middle English tide, yeartide "season, time of year" (from Old English tīd "time, period, yeartide, season").
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In British English, a year-long group of episodes is called a series, whereas in North American English the word "series" is a synonym of "program" or "show".
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