Season

Noun

 * 1) Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
 * 2) A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season, rainy season, football season.
 * 3)  the period over which a series of Test matches are played
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  That which gives relish.

Verb

 * 1)  To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
 * 2)  To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
 * 3)  Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
 * 4)  To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
 * 5)  To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.

Adjectives for Season
singing; sickly; glorious; buried; tempestuous; heated; due; ordinary; rainy; favored; sultry; propitious; modish; virtuous; unapparent; festive; winter; holiday; gala; due; faithful; adverse; gentle; true; ominous; pestilential; youthful; beneficent; suitable; advancing; autumnal; convenient; unchanged.

Verbs for Season
adapt to—; divide into—s; fill—; inaugurate—; launch—; measure—s; —s alternate; —advances; —clothes; —creeps along; —develops; —drifts by; —fades; —flowers; —lapses; —matures; —s merge; —proceeds; —progresses; —promises; —ripens; —rolls around; — vary; —waxes.

Adverbs for Season
pungently; deftly; professionally; skillfully; richly; deliciously.

Derived terms

 * end-of-season
 * high season
 * in season
 * low season
 * midseason


 * mid-season form
 * out of season
 * seasonable
 * seasonal
 * seasonally


 * silly season
 * unseasonally
 * unseasonable
 * unseasonably

Thesaurus
abate, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, adjust to, age, alter, anhydrate, assuage, attain majority, available, beautify, besprinkle, blast-freeze, bloom, box in, break, break in, breathe, brew, brine, case harden, circumscribe, color, come of age, come to maturity, condition, confirm, corn, cultivate, cure, day, decoct, dehydrate, desiccate, develop, diminish, discipline, domesticate, domesticize, dredge, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, dye, edible, elaborate, embalm, embellish, enliven, entincture, establish, evaporate, evolve, familiarize, fateful moment, finish, fit, fix, flavor, fledge, flower, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, gentle, grow, grow up, habituate, harden, hedge, hedge about, hour, housebreak, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, instant, instill, interval, inure, irradiate, jerk, juncture, kairos, kipper, leave the nest, leaven, limit, marinade, marinate, mature, mellow, minute, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, moment, moment of truth, mummify, narrow, naturalize, occasion, opportunity, orient, orientate, palliate, penetrate, pep up, pepper, perfect, period, permeate, pervade, pickle, point, polish, pregnant moment, prepare, preservatize, psychological moment, qualify, quick-freeze, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, ready, reduce, refine, refrigerate, regulate by, restrain, restrict, ripe, ripen, salt, saturate, sauce, savor, school, seasonable, seasoned, set conditions, set limits, settle down, smoke, smoke-cure, soften, space, span, spell, spice, stage, steel, steep, stretch, stuff, suffuse, tame, temper, term, time, time lag, tincture, tinge, toga virilis, toughen, train, transfuse, while, wont

Etymology
sesoun, seson "time of the year" from seson, seison "time of sowing, seeding" from  satiōnem, accusative of satiō "act of sowing, planting" from satum, past participle of serere "to sow, plant" from. Akin to sāwan "to sow", Old English sǣd "seed". Displaced native Middle English sele "season" (from Old English sǣl "season, time, occasion"), Middle English tide, yeartide "season, time of year" (from Old English tīd "time, period, yeartide, season").

Noun

 * Arabic: ,
 * Basque: urtaro
 * Belarusian: пара года
 * Bengali: (ritu)
 * Bosnian: godišnje doba
 * Breton: koulz-amzer
 * Catalan: estació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: εποχή (epokhí)
 * Hebrew: עונה (oná)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: sezono
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: séasúr
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 계절 (gyejeol)
 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian: metų laikas
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:, sesong
 * Occitan: sason
 * Persian: (mausam)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, sazão
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: stagiun, stagiùn, staschung
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak: ročné obdobie
 * Slovene: letni čas
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: пора року
 * Urdu: (mausam)
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: צײַט פון יאָר (tseit fon yar)


 * Bosnian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: sæson
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: ,


 * Norwegian: sesong, løpetid (mating season)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romansch: stagiun, stagiùn, staschung
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, o  (del año)
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Czech:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * Breton: temzañ, sasuniñ
 * Catalan: condimentar, amanir
 * Chinese: 给调味
 * Czech: okořenit
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: spicigi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew: תיבל (tee-BEL)
 * Indonesian: membumbui


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 味付けする (あじつけする, ajitsukesuru)
 * Lithuanian: skaninti, gardinti
 * Norwegian:, smaksette
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: צוריכטן (tzu-RIKH-ten)


 * Dutch: zich aanpassen


 * Italian:, ,


 * Italian:


 * Dutch: rijpen, rijp worden
 * Japanese: 熟れる


 * Norwegian: modnes


 * Swahili:

Anagrams

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