season
Forms
- Plural
- seasons
- present (v1)
- season
- past (v2)
- seasoned
- past participle (v3)
- seasoned
- present participle
- seasoning
- 3rd person singular
- seasons
Definitions
1.A period of the year when something particular happens.
- Which season do you like best?
- The rainy season has begun.
2.A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
- Which season do you like best?
- The rainy season has begun.
3.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.
4.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 had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, / But the wine and the song, / like the seasons, have all gone.
1.To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
2.To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
- The timber needs to be seasoned.
3.To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
4.To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
- The wood has seasoned in the sun.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #443
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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”).