season

Meaning

Noun

1. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
2. A period of the year when something particular happens.
3. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
4. The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
5. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
6. (Australia, Canada, US) 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.
7. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.
8. A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
9. The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
10. 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

1. (transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
2. (broadly, transitive) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
3. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
4. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
5. (transitive) To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
6. (obsolete) To impregnate (literally or figuratively).

Verb

To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

Synonyms

time

⌚

period

flavour

flavor

term

spice

era

temper

epoch

year

opportunity

harden

age

time of year

weather

stage

occasion

hour

enliven

when

steel

spice up

festival

phase

toughen

spell

salt

🧂

etc.

make tasty

climate

dress

👗

time period

while

flavor

summer

🏖️

stint

space

savour

day

seasons

date

📅

autumn

period of time

night

🌃

mollify

master

month

sauce

time of the year

flavour

Translations

saison

Jahreszeit

stagione

estación

🚉

seizoen

estação

εποχή

Saison

jaargetijde

mevsim

würzen

temporada

temperar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsiː.zən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sesoun

Cognate with Old English: sāwan

Cognate with Middle English: sele

Cognate with Old English: sǣl

Cognate with Middle English: tide

Cognate with Old English: tīd

In summary

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”)).

Sentences

At least one more season has already been planned .

Unfortunately the trip never took place and the season was ended very quietly .

This time , however , their top flight stay lasted only one season .

The legal dispute ended in the club folding at the end of the season .