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Word: season (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A part of a year when something particular happens: ''mating season'', ''rainy season'', ''football season''.
  • cricket the period over which a series of test matches are played
  • Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
  • North American 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.
  • obsolete That which gives relish.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
  • intransitive To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
  • transitive Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
  • transitive To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
  • transitive To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.

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