season
IPA: sˈizʌn
noun
- Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
- A part of a year when something particular happens.
- A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
- (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
- (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.
- (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.
- (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.
verb
- (transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
- (transitive, by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
- (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.
- (transitive) To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
- (obsolete) To impregnate (literally or figuratively).
- (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
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Examples of "season" in Sentences
- The peak season for cherries is in the summer.
- The onset of summer usually brings the rainy season.
- Summer is the wettest season with the majority of the days.
- During the summer breeding season, the marsh teems with life.
- The Panchgnaga and its feeders are fordable in the hot season.
- The population as much as trebles in the summer holiday season.
- The nights in the hot season are comparatively cool and pleasant.
- Summers are bracing and very rainy in the beginning of the season.
- The population expands substantially in the summer during the tourism season.
- In areas of the tropics and subtropics, the wet season occurs during the summer.
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