season
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season/ˈsiːzn/
▶noun
- 1 each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours.
■ the time of year when a particular fruit, vegetable, etc., is plentiful and in good condition.
- 2 a period of the year characterized by an activity or event, especially a particular sport: the football season.
■ (the season) the time of year traditionally marked by fashionable upper-class social events.
- 3 (usu. in phr. in season) a period when a female mammal is ready to mate.
- 4 archaic a proper or suitable time: to everything there is a season.
■ an indefinite or unspecified period of time; a while.
- 1 add salt, herbs, or spices to (food).
- 2 add an enlivening quality or feature to.
- 3 keep (wood) so as to dry it for use as timber.
- 4 (as adj. seasoned) accustomed to particular conditions; experienced.
– origin ME: from OFr. seson, from L. satio(n-) ‘sowing’, later ‘time of sowing’.
'season' also found in these Oxford entries:
advent
- Advent calendar
- autumn
- backlist
- Blenheim Orange
- bohea
- bowl
- classic race
- closed season
- close season
- collect
- commute
- double
- dry
- egret
- enchilada
- enzootic
- fag end
- first fruits
- firstling
- hard
- harvest
- high season
- hill station
- hour
- kipper
- lek
- lodge
- low season
- maincrop
- March hare
- monsoon
- must-have
- new
- off season
- open-field system
- open season
- pack
- pepper
- perpetual
- preseason
- primavera
- proper
- R
- redfish
- remontant
- rowen
- ruff
- salt
- sauce
