season
noun
- year in television and radio programming
- traditional annual period when members of a social elite hold social events
- section of a year, in cultural forms (tourism, sports, fashion, theatre, etc.)
- either of two semi-annual introductions of new fashion collections
- weather-based subdivision of the year
verb
- make flavorful or fit
- develop through aging and/or experience
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: [ˈsiː.zn̩] / [ˈsi.zn̩] / [ˈsɪi.zən]
noun
Etymology: 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”)).
- Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season, depending on the climate.
“we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection”
“We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, / But the wine and the song, / like the seasons, have all gone.”
- A period of the year when something particular happens.
“mating season”
“the football season”
- A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
“He seldom was seen in the office himself, but occasionally a paragraph in the paper recorded that his yacht had touched at Mentone and that he had been seen at the Monte Carlo tables, or that he was expected in Leicestershire for the season.”
- A year, but with emphasis on the most important part of the year in context, such as the months when plants or animals grow and reproduce.
“This invasive species reproduces so rapidly that it can completely take over an area in just a couple seasons.”
- The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- That which gives relish; seasoning.
“O! she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul-tainted flesh.”
“You lack the season of all natures, sleep.”
- 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 Robot Chicken aired from 2007 to 2008.”
“Or - is she Erin Gray in the second season of Buck Rogers beautiful?”
- An extended, undefined period of time.
“It was the Winter wilde. While the Heav’n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies: Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim, With her great Maſter ſo to ſympathize: It was no ſeaſon then for her To wanton with the Sun her luſty Paramour.”
“So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season, being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.”
- A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
“a season of faithlessness”
- The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- 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
Etymology: Etymology tree French a- Proto-Indo-European *ser-der. Proto-Italic *serō Latin serō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin satiōnem Old French saison French saison Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er French assaisonnerbor. English season Borrowed from French assaisonner.
- To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.