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season

/ˈsiːzən/

noun

Meaning

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

  • A part of a year when something particular happens

    "mating season"

  • That which gives relish; seasoning.

  • The period over which a series of Test matches are played.

  • 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.

    "The third season of Friends aired from 1996 to 1997."

  • An extended, undefined period of time.

  • The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.

  • 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.

Synonyms

series (British English),
yeartide,
yeartime

verb

Meaning

  • To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.

    "to season oneself to a climate"

  • (by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.

    "The timber needs to be seasoned."

  • To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

  • 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."

  • To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.

  • To copulate with; to impregnate.

Synonyms

desiccate,
dry out,
dry up,
fordry,
shrivel up,
age,
grow up,
mature,
coitize,
go to bed with,
sleep with,
wont,
admix,
alloy,
intermingle,
dehydrate,
desiccate,
exiccate,
fordry