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Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide.
* Addison
A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season'', ''rainy season'', ''football season .
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, title= (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* 1605 , (Shakespeare), The Tragedy of Macbeth, III, 4
(cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
(North America, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
(obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.
* 1656 , , The Mortification of Sin
To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
(obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.
In due season; at an opportune or fitting time.
* 1661 , , p. 6-7:
Varying with the season.
In a manner appropriate to the season.
(chiefly, legal) Within the appropriate time period during which an action will be legally effective, as prescribed in legislation, a contract, or otherwise.
* 2005 :
As a noun season
is each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide.As a verb season
is to flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.As an adverb seasonably is
in due season; at an opportune or fitting time.season
English
(wikipedia season)Noun
(en noun)- the several seasons of the year in their beauty
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- 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.
- You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
- The third season of ''Friends'' aired from 1996 to 1997.
- So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season , being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.
Usage notes
In British English, a year-long group of episodes is called a series, whereas in North American English the word "series" is a synonym of "program" or "show".Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* end-of-season * high season * in season * low season * mating season * midseason * mid-season form * open season * out of season * rutting season * seasonable * seasonal * seasonally * silly season * unseasonally * unseasonable * unseasonablyVerb
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Anagrams
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English
Adverb
(en adverb)- ...having very long suspended our conference about the freshly mention'd Subject, it was so newly begun when you came in, that we shall scarce need to repeat any thing to acquaint you With what has pass'd betwixt us before your arrival, so that I cannot but look upon it as a fortunate Accident that you should come so seasonably , to be not hearers alone, but we hope Interlocutors at our conference.
§ 1-204(3). The American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
- An action is taken "seasonably" when it is taken at or within the time agreed or if no time is agreed at or within a reasonable time.