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season
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)
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
- 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.
- (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- (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.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1
(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)
- (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.
- 1656, John Owen, The Mortification of Sin
- (video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- (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)
- (transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
- (transitive, by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
- (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
- (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
- (transitive) To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
- (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)
- (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
Related terms
- seasoning
Translations
Anagrams
- Easons, naoses, ossean
Middle English
Noun
season
- Alternative form of sesoun
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wintertime
English
Etymology
winter +? time
Noun
wintertime (plural wintertimes)
- The season of winter, between autumn and spring
See also
- wintertide (archaic)
Translations
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