Season Definition

sēzən

seasoning, seasons

noun

seasons

Any of the four arbitrary divisions of the year, characterized chiefly by differences in temperature, precipitation, amount of daylight, and plant growth; spring, summer, fall (or autumn), or winter.

Webster's New World

A time or part of the year during which a specified kind of agricultural work is done or a specified kind of weather prevails.

The harvest season, the rainy season.

Webster's New World

The two divisions of the year, rainy and dry, in some tropical regions.

American Heritage

A recurrent period characterized by certain occurrences, occupations, festivities, or crops.

The holiday season; tomato season.

American Heritage

The time when something specified flourishes, develops, takes place, or is popular, permitted, or at its best.

The opera season, the hunting season.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
span
term
period
stretch
time-of-year
division
certain months of the year
a while
readily-available
on-the-market
seasonable
fairly soon
on-time
not late
autumn

verb

seasoning, seasons

To make (food) more tasty by adding salt, spices, etc.

Webster's New World

To add zest or interest to.

To season a lecture with humor.

Webster's New World

To make more suitable for use; improve the quality of, as by aging, drying, etc.; cure; mature.

To season lumber.

Webster's New World

To give (an athlete, actor, etc.) experience to increase skill.

Many tours seasoned him as an actor.

Webster's New World

To render competent through trial and experience.

A lawyer who had been seasoned by years in the trial courts.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

Antonyms:
cook plain

idiom

in season

Available or ready for eating or other use.
Legally permitted to be caught or hunted during a specified period.

American Heritage

out of season

Not available, permitted, or ready to be eaten, caught, or hunted.
Not at the right or proper moment; inopportunely.

American Heritage

for a season

for a while

Webster's New World

in good season

early enough

Webster's New World

in season

available fresh for use as food
at the legally established time for being hunted or caught

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Season

Noun

Singular:

season

Plural:

seasons

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Season

in season
out of season
for a season
in good season
in season
out of season

Origin of Season

From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year"), from Old French seson, seison (“time of sowing, seeding"), from Latin satiōnem, accusative of satiō (“act of sowing, planting") from satum, past participle of serere (“to sow, plant") from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant"). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow"), Old English sÇ£d (“seed"). Displaced native Middle English sele (“season") (from Old English sÇ£l (“season, time, occasion")), Middle English tide (“season, time of year") (from Old English tÄ«d (“time, period, yeartide, season")).

From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French seison from Latin satiō satiōn- act of sowing from satus past participle of serere to plant sē- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition