What does silly season mean?

silly season means "a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news".

Is silly season a common word?

silly 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.

silly season — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news
Broadertime period

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What does silly season mean?: silly season means "a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news".
Is silly season a common word?: silly 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for silly season come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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