season

1. 1.

   a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field

   “he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company”

   “she always looked forward to the avocado season”

   Broadertime period

   Narrowergrowing seasonseedtimesheepshearingholiday seasonhigh seasonoff-seasonpreseasonbaseball seasonbasketball seasonexhibition season
2. 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”

   Synonymstime of year

   Broadertime period

   Narrowerharvesthayingfallspringsummerwinterrainy seasondry season

   Part ofyear
3. 3.

   a recurrent time marked by major holidays

   “it was the Christmas season”

   Broadertime period

   NarrowerMichaelmastideLammastideEastertideTwelfthtideAllhallowtideChristmasAdventShrovetideLent

1. 1.

   lend flavor to

   “Season the chicken breast after roasting it”

   Synonymsflavorflavour

   Narrowersaucecurryresinatezestsavorsalt

   cooking

2. 2.

   make fit

   “This trip will season even the hardiest traveller”

   Synonymsharden

   Broadertoughen
3. 3.

   make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else

   “she tempered her criticism”

   Synonymstempermollifymoderate

   Broaderweaken

Other forms of season

plural

seasons·

past tense

seasonned·

present participle

seasonning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about season

What does season mean?

season means "a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in season?

season has 2 syllables: sea-son. The stress falls on "sea". In IPA it is /ˈsizən/.

What is another word for season?

Close synonyms include time of year, flavor, flavour, harden, temper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is season a common word?

season is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with season?

1 word rhymes with season. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.