season
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[edit] English
[edit] 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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[edit] 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.
- (obsolete) That which gives relish.
- You lack the season of all natures, sleep. Shakespeare
- (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.
- The third season of Friends aired from 1996 to 1997.
[edit] Usage notes
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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Terms derived from season
[edit] Translations
quarter of a year
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part of year with something special
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a group of episodes
(Obsolete) that which gives relish
[edit] 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.
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to flavour food
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to make fit for any use by time or habit
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to prepare by drying or hardening
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