Definition of "season"
- noun
Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide.
A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season, rainy season, football season.
That which gives relish; seasoning.
The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
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.
- verb
To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
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.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
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.
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