hunting season

1. 1.

   the season during which it is legal to kill a particular species

   Broaderseason

Questions about hunting season

What does hunting season mean?

hunting season means "the season during which it is legal to kill a particular species".

Is hunting season a common word?

hunting season is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.