Season

Definition: Season

Season

Noun

1. A period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field; "he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company" or "she always looked forward to the avocado season".

2. One of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; "the regular sequence of the seasons".

3. A recurrent time marked by major holidays; "it was the Christmas season".

Verb

1. Lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it".

2. Make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller".

3. Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "season" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Season

Impulse

Habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize; naturalize, acclimatize; keep one's hand in; train; (educate).

Mixture

Instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Preservation

Embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband; (store).

Qualification

Moderate, temper, season, leaven.

Time

Noun: time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course; snap.

Crosswords: Season

Pidgin English (season).

You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season. (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

It is a stolen season. (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

Season number two. (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg)

Compadres, it is imperative that we crush the freedom fighters before the start of the rainy season. And remember, a shiny new donkey for whomever brings me the head of Colonel Montoya (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

It's nesting season. (Born to Dance; writing credit: Buddy G. DeSylva; Jack McGowan)

Does that whole mad season got ya down (Mad Season; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

One season I was born (One Season; performing artist: The Roches)

I think it's just the season, Maybe the month, Maybe the bleeding (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Passing through the season, (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua)

Tis the season for draws dropping (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. (references; author: Mark Twain)

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them? (references; author: unknown)

A person's character and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done during the growing season. (references; author: unknown)

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. (references; author: unknown)

Off Season (2002)

Open Season (1996)

Things in Their Season (1974)

Season of the Witch (1973)

Wild Season (1967)

Mad Season (performing artist: Matchbox 20)

One Season (performing artist: The Roches)

Time Of The Season (performing artist: Zombies)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Season of Opera: From Orpheus to Ariadne (reference)

• Penguin: A Season in the Life of the Adelie Penguin (reference)

• The Adventuress (House for the Season, Vol 5) (reference)

• Dark Season at Aerie (reference)

• A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and...Goals! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Farm Safety Season (reference)

• In Season (reference)

• Presenting The Season (reference)

• Word In Season (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete First Season (reference)

• Farscape - The Complete Season 1 (reference)

• Stargate SG-1 Season 1, Vol. 5: Episodes 19-21 (reference)

• Mad About You - The Complete First Season (reference)

• Babylon 5 - Season 2 - Diplomats & Warriors (Soul Mates / A Race Through Dark Places / The Coming of Shadows / Gropos / All Alone in the Night / Acts of Sacrifice) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sound of the Third Season (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Deer Hunter 2 Extension Season with Companion (reference)

• Spyro: Season of Flame (reference)

• Horse Illustrated Championship Season (reference)

• Spyro: Season of Ice (reference)

• Opening Weekend Deer Season (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Share the Season Assortment by Frank Ottomanelli (reference)

• Firepower 0384-1260 500,000 BTU Vers-A-Flame All Season Torch System (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories ... Credit: NASA.

Cold day- cold horses --- near Station Schist Nearing the end of the season Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Passing Mount Shishaldin early in the survey season. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A full moon portends spring tides and clamming season. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Clamming season opens on the Oregon coast. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Celebrating a successful whaling season on the beach at Point Barrow. The whales were cut up and divided among the villagers. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Flying over southeast Alaska mountain peaks on the way home at end of the season. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Fishing as a family business - family members help make up longlines for the upcoming season. Credit: Fisheries.

The intricacies of making up a longline - family members help make up longlines for the upcoming season. Credit: Fisheries.

The second season plants. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The guardian, moreover, so long as he has the wardship of the land, shall keep up the houses, parks, fishponds, stanks, mills, and other things pertaining to the land, out of the issues of the same land; and he shall restore to the heir, when he has come to full age, all his land, stocked with ploughs and wainage, according as the season of husbandry shall require, and the issues of the land can reasonable bear. (reference)

The first part then of paternal power, or rather duty, which is education, belongs so to the father, that it terminates at a certain season; when the business of education is over, it ceases of itself, and is also alienable before: for a man may put the tuition of his son in other hands; and he that has made his son an apprentice to another, has discharged him, during that time, of a great part of his obedience both to himself and to his mother. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings

It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry

Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

Then the season of pleasure came to an end.

Good cotton bag, last all season.

Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Season with herbs instead. (references)

Epidemic transmission is usually seasonal, during and shortly after the rainy season. (references)

This usually occurs during planting or harvesting season, resulting in heavy crop losses. (references)

Business

Summer is the high season for domestic and outbound travel. (references)

For any season, dark conservative colors are the most popular. (references)

In recent years, storage halls were empty throughout the construction season. (references)

Children

South Africa

The provincial department of health reported at least 18 deaths, 5 mutilations, and 42 hospitalizations during the summer initiation season that began in September 2000. In December 2000, provincial health authorities began to regulate the practice by requiring the presence of trained medical personnel during the rituals. (references)

Civil Liberties

South Africa

During the 1998/1999 licensing season, the IBA's Broadcasting Monitoring Complaints Committee found the Muslim Community Radio Station, Radio Islam, guilty of violating its license conditions because, among other things, it refused to allow women to speak on the air. (references)

Economic History

Lesotho

Rainy season in summer, winters dry. (references)

Minorities

United Kingdom

According to the PSNI, there were 28 arson/bomb attacks and 3 other acts of violence directed at both Protestant and Catholic churches in Northern Ireland during 2000. Such sectarian violence often coincides with heightened tensions during the spring and summer marching season. (references)

Political Economy

Uzbekistan

Some children, particularly in rural areas, are forced to work during the harvest season. (references)

Nigeria

The President insists fuel prices will be deregulated in the coming year, but it is certain to be politically difficult, as the 2002/2003 election season opens. (references)

Political Rights

Guatemala

Lack of transport, onerous voter registration requirements, and elections scheduled during the harvest season prevent many poor, indigenous, and rural persons from voting. (references)

Panama

Women hold 7 of 71 Legislative Assembly seats; a woman served as the Assembly's first vice president in 1999-2000, another woman held this position for the 2000-2001 legislative season, and a third woman was elected for the 2001-2002 season. (references)

Morocco

The Election Commission examined numerous petitions during the course of the electoral season in 1997 and recommended the reversal of over 60 municipal election results, including in Tangier, Khoribga, and Oujda, noted irregularities in four parliamentary races in Casablanca, Chefchaouen, and Fez, and called for the results to be set aside, which they were. (references)

Trade

Yemen

While a definitive list of restrictions does not exist, pork and pork products, coffee, alcohol, narcotics, a very limited list of fresh fruits and vegetables during their local production season, weapons and explosives, and rhinoceros horn are prohibited. (references)

Travel

Mexico

An umbrella is a necessity during this season. (references)

Philippines

The hot season or Philippine summer is from March to June. (references)

Women

Uzbekistan

In rural areas, women often work in the cotton fields during the harvest season. (references)

Worker Rights

Chile

Strikes during the harvest season are prohibited. (references)

Slovenia

The minimum age for employment is 16, although during the harvest season or for other farm chores, younger children do engage in labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "season": a word in season ♦ autumn season ♦ baseball season ♦ basketball season ♦ bathing season ♦ be in season ♦ befit the season ♦ bloom twice in one season ♦ breeding season ♦ buying season ♦ close season ♦ compliments of the season ♦ crop season ♦ dead season ♦ dormant season ♦ dry season ♦ exhibition season ♦ fence season ♦ fishing season ♦ flowering season ♦ football season ♦ fruit picking season ♦ get a season ticket ♦ growing season ♦ harvest season ♦ have a season ticket for ♦ height of the season ♦ high season ♦ hockey season ♦ holiday season ♦ hunting season ♦ in and out of season ♦ in due season ♦ in season ♦ low season ♦ mating season ♦ mating season of animals ♦ not in season ♦ off season ♦ open season ♦ out of season ♦ outdoor season ♦ pairing season ♦ peak season ♦ peaked season ♦ picking season ♦ preceding season ♦ pruning season ♦ rainless season ♦ rainy season ♦ rutting season ♦ season into ♦ season of bad roads ♦ season of peace ♦ season of rains ♦ season one's words with jokes ♦ season ticket ♦ season ticket holder ♦ season with pepper ♦ season with sugar ♦ shearing season ♦ shooting season ♦ shoulder season ♦ shoulder season fare ♦ silly season ♦ slack season ♦ social season ♦ sowing season ♦ suit the season ♦ the dead season ♦ the dull season ♦ the growing season ♦ the high season ♦ the off season ♦ the rainy season ♦ the season ♦ theatrical season ♦ threshing season ♦ wet season ♦ winter season ♦ word in season. Additional references.

Beginning with "season": season-about, season-and-a-half, season-by-season, season-ending, season-just, season-long, season-openers, season-opening, season-ticket.

Ending with "season": all-season, close-season, early-season, end-of-season, late-season, mid-season, one-season, out-of-season, post-season, second-season.

Containing "season": are-we-going-to-have-a-season-or-aren't-we, end-of-season-game, off-season fare, one-season-sealed, on-season fare.

Albanian

stinoj, stinë, sezon, periudhë (bout, chapter, date, day, epoch, hitch, hour, inning, innings, period, phase, run, span, stage, streak, stretch, term, tide, time, tour, vintage), kohë (date, day, distance, hour, period, sand, term, time, weather, when, while), kalit (anneal, harden, quench, temper, toughen). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فترة (epoch, era, interval, period, phase, qualifying period, spell, stage, term, time, while), ‏موسم (feast, time), ‏حسن (advantage, alter, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, extend, fine, handsome, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reclaim, reform, upgrade, well), ‏تبل الطعام, ‏زمن (period, time), ‏جفف (dehydrate, desiccate, drain off, dry, exsiccate, mangle, mummify, parch, sear, spin), ‏جف (drain, dry, dry up, run dry), ‏إنضج (age, become round, mature, ripen), ‏أوان (time). (various references)

Basque

urtaro. (various references)

Bulgarian 

закалявам (anneal, case harden, draw, harden, quench, set up, steel, toughen), период (age, circle, cycle, date, epoch, period, phase, repetend, spell, term, time), подправям (adulterate, cook, debase, doctor, dose, dress, fabricate, falsify, fiddle, fix up, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, load, raise, salt, sophisticate, spice, wangle), подходящ момент (place), подходящо време (place), подслаждам (dulcify, honey, sugar, sugar coat, sweeten), изсъхвам (become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, crisp, drain, dry, dry up, get dry, mummify, parch, sear), аклиматизирам (acclimate, acclimatize), смекчавам (break down, chastise, correct, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, retouch, smooth out, soften, subdue, tame, temper, turn, water down), отлежавам (age, mature), оставям да отлежи (mature), годишно време (tide), калявам (anneal, attemper, enure, inure, steel), разнообразявам (diversify, interleave, intersperse, pepper, relieve, variegate, vary), сезон (tide), абонаментна карта (contract, season ticket). (various references)

Chamorro

tiempon somnak (dry season), fanuchanan (rainy season), fañomnagan (hot season). (various references)

Chinese 

時節 (time), 時 (hour, O'clock, period, time, when), 季节 (Seasons), 季節 (period, time), 季 (period). (various references)

Cornish

séson. (various references)

Croatian

doba. (various references)

Czech

sezóna, roční období, roèní období, okořenit (Flavor, flavour), ochutit (Flavor, flavour), období (epoch, period, phase, spell, stage, term), nechat vyschnout, nechat uležet, mírnit (assuage). (various references)

Danish

årstid. (various references)

Dutch

op smaak brengen (flavor, flavour), kruiden (flavor, flavour, spice). (various references)

Esperanto

sezono, gustigi (flavor, flavour). (various references)

Faeroese

árstíð. (various references)

Farsi 

فصل (Article, Term), فرصت (Breather, Chance, Leisure, Opportunity, Shot, Space, Start, Time, Vantage), معتدل کردن (Alloy, Temper), هنگام (During, Gamut, In, Moment, Term), چاشنی زدن , خودادن (Addict, Inure), ادویه زدن (Condiment), دوران (Race, Rotation, Vertigo). (various references)

Finnish

vuodenaika. (various references)

French

saison. (various references)

Frisian

jiertiid. (various references)

German

Saison, Jahreszeit. (various references)

Greek 

εποχή (age, epoch, era, time). (various references)

Hebrew 

מועד (confirmed, festival, forewarned, habitual, liable, meeting, term, warned), לתבל (flavour, salt, sauce, spice), תקופה (age, cycle, epoch, era, period, space, stage, streak, term, time), קירס (opportunity), עת (age, era, period, term, time), עונה (cohabitation, period, term). (various references)

Hungarian

évszak, évad. (various references)

Icelandic

regntími (rainy season). (various references)

Indonesian

musim (spell), membumbui (spice), masa (epoch, era, period, tense, term). (various references)

Irish

séasúr. (various references)

Italian

stagione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

陽気　 (cheerfulness, weather), 陽気 (cheerfulness, weather), 時節 (occasion, opportunity, the times), 時期 (period, time), 時候 (time of the year), 時分 (hour, time, time of the year), 旬 (10-day period), 候 (classical verbal ending equivalent to colloquial -masu, weather), 季節　, 季節 , 季候　 (climate), 季候 (climate), 季 (season word or phrase), シーアンドエア方式 (CM, commercial message, off-season, sea and air system, seajack, Seasat, seasickness, seaside, seaside resort, seaside school, season in, season sale, season stock, seasoning, secret, Secret Service, seek, seeker, see-through look, sequence, sequencer, sequential, sheath, sheath silhouette, Sikh). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きせつ (established, existing), きこう (armor, armour, breath control, breathing exercise, calling at aport, chi kung, cleverness, climate, contribution, contrivance, drafting, eccentricities, homeward voyage or flight, horseback riding, mechanism, organization, qigong, remarkable effect, returning to port, returning to school, setting to work, spirit cultivation, stoma, stopping at a port, traveller's journal, trick, you), しゅん (excellence, genius, talented person), こう (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), シーズン , ようき (cheerfulness, container, ghostly, instrument, tool, unearthly, vessel, weather, weird), じぶん (hour, modern literature, myself, oneself, time, time of the year), じせつ (occasion, one's cherished opinion, one's personal opinion, opportunity, the times), じこう (automobile industry, earhole, earwax, facts, fad, fashion, imperial tutor, inside the ear, item, matter, statute of limitations, time of the year), じき (abandonment, at once, being straight, chance, cheerfulness, china, correctness, despair, desperation, direct, frankness, honesty, in person, just, magnetism, near by, next period, next term, night duty, opportunity, period, porcelain, seasons, self-recording, simplicity, soon, time, writing oneself), き (10th in rank, 6th in rank, chest, chronicle, coffer, crude, deed, lean on, mood, period, plan, pure, raw, rest against, rice tub, rule, season word or phrase, sixth sign of the Chinese calendar, skill, spirit, table, tenth sign of the Chinese calendar, that, timber, time, tree, undiluted, wood, yellow). (various references)

Korean 

절기 (Seasons). (various references)

Luganda

ttoggo (first rainy season), ddumbi (second rainy season). (various references)

Malay

musim. (various references)

Manx

lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up), imbagh (term, tide), cur jeih-vlass er, blaastey (sampling). (various references)

Maya

chaakil (rainy season). (various references)

Occitan

sason. (various references)

Papiamen

temporada. (various references)

Pidgin English

season, period. (various references)

Pig Latin

easonsay.(various references)

Portuguese

temporada (period of time, run, snap), estação (flag-station, station, stop, term). (various references)

Quechua

mit'a. (various references)

Romanian

supune unui tratament, sezon, se usca (drain, dry up, parch, scorch), se maturiza (come in, mature), se banaliza (stale), usca (air, desiccate, drain, dry, exsiccate, parch, sap, scorch, sear, swelter), timp (age, beat, course, cycle, date, day, distance, epoch, era, hour, length, period, tense, term, time, weather, while), potrivi vinul, perioadã (age, cycle, date, day, distance, epoch, era, lapse, period, repetend, stadium, stage, streak, term, tide, time), drege (arrange, darn, doctor, Flavor, flavour, juggle, mend, piece, readjust, refit, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retouch, set to rights, spice, tinker, vamp up), condimenta (Flavor, flavour, pepper, relish, savor, savour, spice), asezona (dress, savor, savour), anotimp (monsoon), întãri (bind, bond, brace, bracket, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enforce, entrench, fix, fortify, harden, indurate, invigorate, nerve, recruit, reinforce, screw, stay, steady, steel, stiffen, strengthen, stress, tone up). (various references)

Romansch

stagiun. (various references)

Russian 

сезон. (various references)

Scottish

saill (blubber, cure, fat, fat or fatness, fatness, pickle, salt thou), tràth (a meal, diet of food, in season, quick, time), ré (duration of time, during, for, lifetime;, nf.ind. the moon, space of time, the moon, time, whereas, while, whilst), ràidh, aimsir (time, weather), ùine (time, while). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sezona, sazrevati (ripen), začiniti (flavor, flavour, lard, spice), vreme (epoch, spell, tense, time, weather), godišnje doba. (various references)

Shona

mwaka. (various references)

Sicilian

staggiunu. (various references)

Spanish

temporada (spell, time), estación (bathroom, resort, st., station, time). (various references)

Swahili

masika (rainy season), kupupwe (cold season), kiangazi (dry season). (various references)

Swedish

säsong, årstid. (various references)

Tagalog

panahon. (various references)

Thai

ฤดูแล้ง (dry season), ฤดูร้อน (hot season, summer, summertime). (various references)

Turkish

sezon, zaman (bout, cycle, date, day, father time, hour, sands, tense, time, when, while, whilst), yumuşatmak (attemper, chasten, dulcify, limber up, loosen, mellow, melt, moderate, mollify, mute, relax, shake up, smooth, soft pedal, soften, supple, tame, unbend, unman), vakit (father time, hour, time, when, while), terbiyelemek (sauce), tatlandırmak (sweeten), olgunlaştırmak (mature, ripen), olgunlaşmak (cut one's wisdom teeth, flower, head, maturate, mature, mellow, ripen, set), mevsim (etesian, tide), kurutmak (air, bake, corn, cure, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, drain, dry, dry up, exhaust, parch, scorch, sear, shrivel, torrefy, weather, wither), kurumak (desiccate, dry, dry up, get dry, parch, sear), baharatını katmak, alıştırmak (accommodate, accustom, addict, adjust, attune, break in, condition, conform, dovetail, enure, exercise, familiarize, habituate, harden, inure, regrind, school, train), alışmak (acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodate oneself, addict, adjust, be in the habit of doing, become inured to, become reconciled to, drop into a habit, get accustomed to smth., get used to, orient oneself, orientate oneself, reconcile oneself to, school oneself to, take