season

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Wikipedia

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old English sesoun, French saison, (meaning properly, the sowing time), from Latin satio (meaning a sowing, a planting), from serere, satum, (to sow, plant); akin to English sow, (meaning to scatter, as seed).

[edit] Pronunciation

•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -iːzən

[edit] Noun

season (plural seasons)

1. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
2. A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season, rainy season, football season.
3. (obsolete) That which gives relish.

   You lack the season of all natures, sleep. Shakespeare

4. (cricket) the period over which a series of test matches are played
5. (North American) 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".

[edit] Related terms

in season out of season seasonal seasonally

unseasonally seasonable unseasonable unseasonably

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to season (third-person singular simple present seasons, present participle seasoning, simple past and past participle seasoned)

1. (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
2. (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.
3. (transitive) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
4. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
5. (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.

[edit] Translations