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Definition: Season |
SeasonNoun1. 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". Verb1. 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) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Fig. 1
This is a diagram of the seasons. Note that, regardless of the time of day (i.e. the Earth's rotation on its axis), the North Pole will be dark, and the South Pole will be illuminated; see also arctic winter. In addition to the density of incident light, the dissipation of light in the atmosphere is greater when it falls at a shallow angle.Fig. 2
As the Earth revolves around the Sun, the seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres are opposite.A season is one of the major divisions of the year. Typically, the year is divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn (fall), and winter. Some cultures may use other numbers; for instance, some indigenous peoples in Australia's Northern Territory use six seasons.
In tropical regions it is common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season and the dry season, as the amount of precipitation may vary more drastically than the average temperature.
The seasons are caused ultimately by the fact that the Earth's axis is not perpendicular to its orbital plane; it deviates by an angle of approximately 23.5 degrees of arc. Thus, at any given time during the summer or winter, one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the Sun (see Fig. 1). This exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit. At any given time, regardless of season, the northern and southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons (see Fig. 2 and Seasonality table).
Seasonality table Northern
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alternateMonth Southern
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alternateWinter Winter January Summer Summer February Spring March Autumn Spring April Autumn May Summer June Winter Summer July Winter August Autumn September Spring Autumn October Spring November Winter December Summer Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Season."
Synonyms: SeasonSynonyms: time of year (n), flavor (v), flavour (v), harden (v), temper (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Season |
| English words defined with "season": baseball season, basketball season ♦ fishing season, football season ♦ growing season ♦ high season, hockey season, hunting season ♦ peak season ♦ season ticket, social season ♦ theatrical season, triple-crown season. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "season": Wood-sere. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Season" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Pidgin English (season). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | 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) | |
Lyrics | 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) | |
Clever | 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) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Off Season (2002) Open Season (1996) Things in Their Season (1974) Season of the Witch (1973) Wild Season (1967) | |
Song Titles | 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. | ||
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Periodicals |
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Theater & Movies |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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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. | |||
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| "Tis The Season" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Christmas Card Design Series. Please view the full sized version to appreciate this one. Thanks!." | "Season" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "Xmas candle." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
A. Alison | Who at this season does not feel impressed with a sentiment of melancholy? |
Edmund Burke | It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. |
George Meredith | The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. |
John Donne | Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. |
Keats | Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness. |
Mary Todd Lincoln | My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. |
Plutarch | Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. |
Shakespeare | Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion. |
Tryon Edwards. | Hell is truth seen too late -- duty neglected in its season. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | 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) |
John Locke | 1690 | 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. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | 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 |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Then the season of pleasure came to an end. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Good cotton bag, last all season. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DUCK-:BILL:, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Although the proposed treaty did not arrest the progress of military preparation, it is doubtful how far the advance of the season, before good faith justified active movements, may retard them during the remainder of the year. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | If immediately begun, they may be in readiness for service at the opening of the next season. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Should the present season not admit of complete success, the progress made will insure for the next a naval ascendancy where it is essential to our permanent peace with and control over the savages. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Considerable progress has been made in it, but the survey can not be completed until the next season. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Treaties have been made with them, which in due season will be submitted for consideration. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of money has usurped its place, although the forms of free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Six months ago, early in this season of change, I stood at the gates of the Gdansk shipyard in Poland at the monument to the fallen workers of Solidarity. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now, we must do the work that the season demands. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Season" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Season" is used about 10,938 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.98% | 10,936 | 850 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10,938 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "season" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Season | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,463 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
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. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
four season | 2,578 | zelda oracle of season walk through | 118 |
four season hotel | 1,825 | oracle of season | 105 |
season | 1,656 | digimon season 3 | 98 |
hurricane season | 475 | four season aviara | 97 |
digimon season 4 | 457 | four season nevis | 94 |
tis the season | 411 | four season chicago | 93 |
four season resort | 310 | zelda oracle of season cheat | 92 |
lodge of four season | 223 | season southern | 85 |
season greeting | 209 | three season room | 82 |
four season sun room | 194 | four season nursery | 82 |
zelda oracle of season | 185 | 2 24 season | 80 |
four season maui | 178 | legend of zelda oracle of season cheat | 80 |
four season las vegas | 176 | tahoe season resort | 79 |
mad season | 169 | 3 season smallville | 78 |
5 digimon season | 149 | digimon season 2 | 78 |
season in the sun | 147 | summer season | 77 |
4 season | 142 | 6 charmed season | 76 |
man for all season | 135 | four season hotel las vegas | 74 |
legend of zelda oracle of season | 127 | four season hawaii | 71 |
season of the sakura | 124 | 2003 hurricane season | 69 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "season"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
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 to), çeşni katmak (sauce, spice). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pasyl, mцwsьm, halat (time). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сезон (time), робити придатним для вживання, надавати смаку (zest), акліматизувати (acclimate, acclimatize), пора року, пора (date, day, osculum, ostiole, pore). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vụ (crop, service), thời gian hoạt động mạnh một thời gian, lúc mùa. (various references) | |
Welsh | tymp (time), tymor (term), pryd (aspect, complexion, form, meal, since, time, when, while). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | hora, horae, horam, horarum, horas, horis, tempestas, tempestate, tempestatem, tempestati, tempestatis, tempestatum, tempora, tempore, tempori, temporibus, temporis, temporum, tempus, tempusque. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ýâirya. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | assaisoner, saison. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 4, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai suntelesaV panta peirasmon o diaboloV apesth ap autou acri kairou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et consummata omni temptatione diabolus recessit ab illo usque ad tempus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And ealre þære costunge gefylledre. se deofol him sume hwile fram gewat; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne euery temptacioun was endid, the feend wente a wei fro hym for a tyme. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Assone as the devyll had ended all his temptacions he departed from him for a season. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when all these tests were ended the Evil One went away from him for a time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 4, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa natapus na sa yawa ang tanang mga pagtintal kaniya, siya mipahawa usa kaniya hangtud sa laing higayon. |
| Chinese | 魔 鬼 用 完 了 各 樣 的 試 探 、 就 暫 時 離 開 耶 穌 。 |
| Croatian | Pošto iscrpi sve kušnje, ðavao se udalji od njega do druge prilike. |
| Danish | Og da Djævelen havde endt al Fristelse, veg han fra ham til en Tid. |
| Dutch | En als de duivel alle verzoeking voleindigd had, week hij van Hem voor een tijd. |
| Finnish | Ja kun oli kaiken kiusattavansa kiusannut, poistui perkele hänen luotaan ajaksi. |
| French | Après l`avoir tenté de toutes ces manières, le diable s`éloigna de lui jusqu`à un moment favorable. |
| German | Und da der Teufel alle Versuchung vollendet hatte, wich er von ihm eine Zeitlang. |
| Hungarian | És elvégezvén minden kísértést az ördög, eltávozék tõle egy idõre. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah Iblis selesai mencobai Yesus dengan segala macam cara, ia meninggalkan Yesus dan menunggu waktu yang baik. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah Iblis itu menggenapi segala pencobaan ke atas-Nya, lalu undurlah ia dari Yesus seketika lamanya. |
| Korean | 마 귀 가 모 든 시 험 을 다 한 후 에 얼 마 동 안 떠 나 리 라 |
| Manx Gaelic | As erreish da'n drogh-spyrryd v'er n'yannoo jerrey er ooilley yn violagh, daag eh eh son earish. |
| Maori | A ka mutu katoa nga whakamatautauranga a te rewera, ka mawehe atu i a ia mo tetahi wahi. |
| Norwegian | Og da djevelen hadde endt all fristelse, vek han fra ham for en tid. |
| Portuguese | Assim, tendo o Diabo acabado toda sorte de tentação, retirou-se dele até ocasião oportuna. |
| Rumanian | Dupq ce L -a ispitit kn toate felurile, diavolul a plecat dela El, pknq la o vreme. |
| Shuar | Tuma asamtai íwianch penké tujintiak ishichik tsawant Jesusan iniaisamiayi. |
| Swahili | Ibilisi alipokwishamjaribu kwa kila njia, akamwacha kwa muda. |
| Swedish | När djävulen så hade slutat med alla sina frestelser, vek han ifrån honom, intill läglig tid. |
| Uma | Ka'oti-na Magau' Anudaa' mposori Yesus hante hawe'ea pesori toe, malai-imi mpopea loga to lompe'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "season": seasonable, seasonableness, seasonablenesses, seasonably, seasonal, seasonalities, seasonality, seasonally, seasoned, seasoner, seasoners, seasoning, seasonings, seasonless, seasons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "season": postseason, preseason, reseason. (additional references) | |
Words containing "season": nonseasonal, postseasons, preseasons, reseasoned, reseasoning, reseasons, unseasonable, unseasonableness, unseasonablenesses, unseasonably, unseasoned. (additional references) | |
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"Season" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bseisou, Deason, Espadon, esson, leason, Meason, Neason, Osbaston, Peason, Saadoun, sabayon, saeson, saision, saso, sasol, Sauzon, sazon, Seamon, seaon, seasan, sease, Seaser, seasson, Seasun, seatone, Sebastos, seeson, seimon, seisor, Selson, Selsun, Sesok, seson, Sesso, seston, Sevaso, Shaston, Shaxson, Sibson, teason, weason, Zeesen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "season" (pronounced sē"zun) |
| 4 | -ē" z u n | reason, treason. |
| 3 | -z u n | arisen, artisan, bipartisan, brazen, chosen, citizen, cousin, crimson, denizen, dozen, emblazon, frozen, Hausen, Hazan, horizon, imprison, Mizen, nonpartisan, partisan, poison, prison, risen, rosin, thousand, unfrozen, wizen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: aeons, noses, oases, sanes, sensa, sones. | |
-2 letters: aeon, anes, eons, naos, ness, noes, nose, ones, oses, ossa, sane, sans, seas, sone, sons. | |
-3 letters: ane, ass, ens, eon, ess, nae, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sae, sea, sen, son, sos. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, as, en, es, na, ne, no, oe, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: reasons, seasons, senoras, weasons. | |
+2 letters: adenoses, adenosis, adonises, agonises, anemoses, anemosis, anisoles, anserous, arsenous, assentor, astonies, baroness, canoness, coarsens, cyanoses, dapsones, enolases, erasions, evasions, hexosans, hoarsens, mannoses, nabobess, narcoses, nauseous, nosebags, nosegays, ovalness, paesanos, personas, reseason, responsa, sandshoe, sawbones, saxonies, seasonal, seasoned, seasoner, senators, senhoras, senopias, sensoria, serranos, sonances, soutanes, soybeans, spadones, starnose, treasons. | |
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