season

noun seasons

1. 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 saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection
2. A period of the year when something particular happens. mating season
3. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc. He seldom was seen in the office himself, but occasionally a paragraph in the paper recorded that his yacht had touched at Mentone and that he had been seen at the Monte Carlo tables, or that he was expected in Leicestershire for the season.
4. metonymically 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.
5. The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
6. obsolete That which gives relish; seasoning. O! she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul-tainted flesh.
7. Australia, Canada, US 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 Robot Chicken aired from 2007 to 2008.
8. archaic An extended, undefined period of time. It was the Winter wilde. While the Heav’n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies: Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim, With her great Maſter ſo to ſympathize: It was no ſeaſon then for her To wanton with the Sun her luſty Paramour.
9. A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation. a season of faithlessness
10. The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
11. 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.

verb seasons · seasoning · seasoned

1. transitive To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance. to season oneself to a climate
2. broadly, transitive To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices. The timber needs to be seasoned.
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. The wood has seasoned in the sun.
5. transitive To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
6. obsolete To impregnate (literally or figuratively). When the male hath once ſeaſoned the female, he neuer after toucheth her.

Similar: grow up, mature, alloy, intermingle

verb seasons · seasoning · seasoned

1. transitive To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt. Lightly season the cod with salt and pepper and nestle the fish onto the pan.