seasonal
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsiːzənəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]seasonal (comparative more seasonal, superlative most seasonal)
- Of, related to, or reliant on a season or period of the year, especially with regard to weather characteristics.
- Antonyms: aseasonal, nonseasonal
- It is a seasonal swimming pool.
- 1957 July, D. S. M. Barrie, “Sixty Years of British Express Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 456:
- The cult of the holiday camp has brought seasonal expresses to fresh destinations such as Penychain, in North Wales; over 250,000 people go by train annually to Butlin's holiday camps alone.
- 2022 December 22, Vanessa Yurkevich, “America needs immigrants to solve its labor shortage”, in CNN[1]:
- Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.
- (of weather) Appropriate to the season.
- Antonym: unseasonal
- Q: How's the weather there? A: The wind is pretty stiff, but it's seasonal, so no complaints.
- Q: Eyewitness News now turns to Steve for a weather update. Steve, what does the coming week have in store for us? A: Well, Stacy, get ready for the return of seasonal temperatures, because our little break from the cold will be coming to an end.
Derived terms
[edit]- aseasonal
- contraseasonal
- coseasonal
- hyperseasonal
- interseasonal
- intraseasonal
- multiseasonal
- nonseasonal
- periseasonal
- postseasonal
- preseasonal
- pseudoseasonal
- seasonal affective disorder
- seasonal constellation
- seasonal depression
- seasonal hour
- seasonality
- seasonalization
- seasonalize
- seasonal lake
- seasonally
- seasonal mood disorder
- seasonal unemployment
- seasonal worker
- semiseasonal
- subseasonal
- transseasonal
- uniseasonal
- unseasonal
Translations
[edit]Noun
[edit]seasonal (plural seasonals)
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