season
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
season (plural seasons)
Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter - Synonyms: yeartide, yeartime
- c. 1705, Joseph Addison, Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703
- we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection
- A part of a year when something particular happens
- mating season
- the rainy season
- the football season
- (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1
- O! she is fallen
- Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
- Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
- And salt too little which may season give
- To her foul-tainted flesh.
- 1605, Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth, III, 4
- You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1
- (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
(North America, 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. - Synonyms: series (British English)
- The third season of Friends aired from 1996 to 1997.
- (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.
- 1656, John Owen, The Mortification of Sin
- So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season, being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.
- 1656, John Owen, The Mortification of Sin
- (video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- (video games) 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.
- French: saison
- German: Jahreszeit
- Italian: stagione
- Portuguese: estação, sazão
- Russian: вре́мя го́да
- Spanish: estación
- French: saison
- German: Saison
- Italian: stagione
- Portuguese: temporada
- Russian: сезо́н
- Spanish: temporada, período, época (del año)
- French: saison
- German: Staffel
- Italian: stagione
- Portuguese: temporada
- Russian: сезо́н
- Spanish: temporada
- Russian: припра́ва
- French: temps
season (seasons, present participle seasoning; past and past participle seasoned)
- (transitive) To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.
- to season oneself to a climate
- (transitive, by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
- The timber needs to be seasoned.
- (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.
- The wood has seasoned in the sun.
- (transitive) To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
- (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.
- (make fit for any use by time or habit) wont; see also Thesaurus:accustom
- (prepare by drying) desiccate, dehydrate, exiccate, fordry
- (become mature) age, grow up, mature; see also Thesaurus:to age
- (become dry and hard) desiccate, dry out, dry up, fordry, shrivel up
- (mingle) admix, alloy, intermingle; see also Thesaurus:mix
- (copulate with) coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- German: anpassen, abhärten
- Italian: addestrare, allenare, acclimatare
- Spanish: habituar, acostumbrar, aclimatar
- German: trocknen
- Italian: stagionare
- German: austrocknen
season (seasons, present participle seasoning; past and past participle seasoned)
Related terms Translations- French: épicer, assaisonner
- German: würzen
- Italian: condire, insaporire
- Portuguese: condimentar, temperar
- Spanish: aliñar, condimentar, sazonar
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