season
season
/ˈsiːzn/
1 any of the four main periods of the year: spring, summer, autumn and winter
the changing seasons
Autumn is my favourite season.
Collocations
adjective
verb + season
be in
come into
be out of
2 the dry/rainy/wet season a period of the year in tropical countries when it is either very dry or it rains a lot
In this climate there are no real changes of temperature, just a wet and a dry season.
Next month is the start of the rainy season.
3 a period of time during a year when a particular activity happens or is done
the cricket/football/hunting/shooting season
He scored his first goal of the season on Saturday.
They achieved their first win of the season.
He will not be offered a new contract at the end of the season.
The team have had a dream start to the season.
The female changes colour during the breeding season.
The growing season for these trees varies depending on species.
We're in the middle of the roughest hurricane season we've seen in quite some time.
The hotels are always full during the peak season (= when most people are on holiday).
(British English) the holiday season
(especially North American English) the tourist season
(North American English) the holiday season (= the time of Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year)
(British English) the festive season (= Christmas and New Year)
the summer blockbuster season
She scored her first goal of the season on Saturday.
We opened the season with five straight losses.
This year's flu season has been relatively mild.
They played against the Celtics in the season opener.
The resort gets overcrowded in peak season.
The party conference season gets under way this week.
The Senator has led in the polls for most of the primary season.
The Patriots won their last 12 games in the regular season.
The Denver Broncos' inaugural season was 1960.
Our team won the trophy for the second successive season.
It was the final race of a hard season.
I wished everyone a very happy holiday season.
He played a full season for West Ham.
He is busily preparing for the coming season.
He entered the season with 173 wins.
Decker played nine major league seasons.
He hurt his knee, so he was out the rest of the season.
They finished the season unbeaten.
Collocations
adjective
verb + season
season + verb
season + noun
4 a period of time in which a play is shown in one place; a series of plays, films or television programmes
The play opens for a second season in London next week.
a season of films by Alfred Hitchcock
5 a period of time during one year when a particular style of clothes, hair, etc. is popular and fashionable
This season's look is soft and romantic.
The fashion magazines are full of the new look for the spring season.
6 (especially North American English) a set of television or radio programmes that have the same characters or deal with the same subject
The show begins its second season next week.
I binge-watched an entire season of ‘Mad Men’ (= watched all of the episodes on one occasion) on Sunday.
I can't wait to see the season finale (= last episode in the season).
the season opener (= the first episode in the season)
Idioms
season
/ˈsiːzn/
season (something) (with something) to add salt, pepper, etc. to food in order to make it taste better
Season the lamb with garlic.
Add the mushrooms, and season to taste (= add as much salt, pepper, etc. as you think is necessary).
Season the meat well with salt and pepper.
highly seasoned food
Collocations
adverb
preposition
with
phrases
highly seasoned
Word Origin
Middle English: from Old French seson, from Latin satio(n-) ‘sowing’, later ‘time of sowing’, from the root of serere ‘to sow’.