season

English Online Dictionary. What means season‎? What does season mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sēʹzən; (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.zən/
• Rhymes: -iːzən
• Hyphenation: sea‧son

Etymology 1

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”)).

Noun

season (plural seasons)

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

   Synonyms: yeartide, yeartime
3. A part of a year when something particular happens.
4. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
5. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
6. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
8. (Canada, US, Australia, 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)
9. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.
10. (Evangelical Christianity) A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.

11. (video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
12. (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: シーズン (shīzun)

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 impregnate (literally or figuratively).

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
• (impregnate): inseminate, fertilize, seed

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

Translations

Anagrams

• Easons, naoses, ossean

Middle English

Noun

season

1. Alternative form of sesoun