seasons

Noun

season (plural seasons)

1. Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season, depending on the climate.
   • we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfectionc. 1705, Joseph Addison, Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

   Synonyms:

   yeartide, yeartime

2. A period of the year when something particular happens.
   • mating season

   Synonyms:

   time

3. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
   • He seldom was seen in the office himself, but occasionally a paragraph in the paper recorded that his yacht had touched at Mentone and that he had been seen at the Monte Carlo tables, or that he was expected in Leicestershire for the season.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
4. (metonymically, pars pro toto) A year, but with emphasis on the most important part of the year in context, such as the months when plants or animals grow and reproduce.
   • This invasive species reproduces so rapidly that it can completely take over an area in just a couple seasons.
5. The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
6. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
   • O! she is fallen
     Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
     And salt too little which may season give
     To her foul-tainted flesh.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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