Definition of SEASON

season

Plural: seasons

Noun

  • a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
    • "he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company"
    • "she always looked forward to the avocado season"
  • one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
    • "the regular sequence of the seasons"
  • a recurrent time marked by major holidays
    • "it was the Christmas season"
  • Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
  • A part of a year when something particular happens.
  • A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
  • The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
  • That which gives relish; seasoning.
  • 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.
  • An extended, undefined period of time.
  • A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
  • 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

Verb Forms: seasoned, seasoning, seasons

  • To enhance or improve the flavor of food with spices or herbs.
  • lend flavor to
    • "Season the chicken breast after roasting it"
  • make fit
    • "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
  • make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
  • To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
  • To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
  • To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
  • To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
  • To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
  • To impregnate (literally or figuratively).
  • To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

Examples

  • a season of faithlessness
  • mating season
  • She tried to season her vocabulary with obscure words to impress her Scrabble opponents.
  • the football season
  • the rainy season
  • The third season of Robot Chicken aired from 2007 to 2008.
  • The timber needs to be seasoned.
  • The wood has seasoned in the sun.
  • to season oneself to a climate

Origin / 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”)).

Synonyms

flavor, flavour, harden, mollify, temper, time of year, accustom, admix, age, alloy, dehydrate, desiccate, dry out, dry up, exiccate, fertilize, fordry, grow up, inseminate, intermingle, mature, mix, seed, series, shrivel up, to age, wont, yeartide, yeartime

Scrabble Score: 6

season: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
season: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
season: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

season: valid Words With Friends Word