different between season vs jul

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?si?z?n/
• (General American) enPR: s??z?n IPA^(key): /?siz?n/
• Rhymes: -i?z?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin sati? (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of ser? (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh?- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English s?wan (“to sow”), s?d (“seed”). Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English s?l (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English t?d (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).

Noun

season (plural seasons)

1. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter

   Synonyms: yeartide, yeartime

   • c. 1705, Joseph Addison, Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

     we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection
2. A part of a year when something particular happens.
3. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
4. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
5. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1

     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.

   • 1605, Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth, III, 4

     You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

6. (Canada, US, broadcasting) 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.

   Synonym: series (British English)

7. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.
   • 1656, John Owen, The Mortification of Sin

     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.

8. (video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
9. (video games) 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.

Usage notes

In British English, a year-long group of episodes of a television or radio show is called a series, whereas in North American English the word series is a synonym of program or show.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (sh?zun)

Translations

See also

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.

2. (transitive, by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.

3. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
4. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.

5. (transitive) To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
6. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.

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Synonyms

• (make fit for any use by time or habit): wont; see also Thesaurus:accustom
• (prepare by drying): desiccate, dehydrate, exiccate, fordry
• (become mature): age, grow up, mature; see also Thesaurus:to age
• (become dry and hard): desiccate, dry out, dry up, fordry, shrivel up
• (mingle): admix, alloy, intermingle; see also Thesaurus:mix
• (copulate with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Translations

Etymology 2

From French assaisonner.

Verb

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.

Related terms

• seasoning

Translations

Anagrams

• Easons, naoses, ossean

Middle English

Noun

season

1. Alternative form of sesoun

Afrikaans

Determiner

jul

1. Alternative form of julle; your (plural)

See also

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse jól, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *jehwl?, *jeul?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ju?l]
• Homophone: hjul

Noun

jul c (singular definite julen, plural indefinite jule)

1. (Christianity) Christmas (the time around 25 December)

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: jul
  • ? Norwegian Nynorsk: jul (partially from an earlier East Nordic borrowing)
• ? German: Jul
  • ? Dutch: joel
  • ? German: Julfest
    • ? Dutch: joelfeest
• ? Greenlandic: juulli

Verb

jul

1. imperative of jule

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse jól

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j???/, /j??l/
• Homophone: hjul
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

jul f or m (definite singular jula or julen, indefinite plural juler, definite plural julene)

1. Christmas, also Yule

Derived terms

References

• “jul” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• jol

Etymology

From Old Norse jól. Akin to English Yule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??l/
• Homophone: hjul

Noun

jul f (definite singular jula, indefinite plural juler, definite plural julene)

1. Christmas, Christmastide
2. Yule (Germanic celebration of the winter solstice)

Derived terms

• god jul
• romjul

References

• “jul” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

j?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. Alternative spelling of j?li, the month of July

Declension

See also

• (month): Previous: j?n. Next: avgust

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/sije?anj, februar/velja?a, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac ^{(Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)}

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish i?l, from Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwl?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??l/
• Homophone: hjul
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

jul c

1. Christmas

Declension

Related terms

• julafton
• julotta
• julmust
• julstuga
• jultomte
• julöl

Etymology 2

Noun

jul ?

1. July; Abbreviation of juli.

See also

• jan - feb - mar - apr - maj - jun - jul - aug - sep - okt - nov - dec

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ul/

Noun

jul (nominative plural juls)

1. school

Declension

Hyponyms

• pöpajul