season
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- A period of the year when something particular happens.
- A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
- 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.
- The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- That which gives relish; seasoning.
- 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.
- An extended, undefined period of time.
- A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
- The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.
verb
- To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
- To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
- To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
- To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
- To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
- To impregnate (literally or figuratively).
verb
- To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
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Etymology
From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).
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