Noun

(en noun)

Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide.

* Addison

the several seasons of the year in their beauty

A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season'', ''rainy season'', ''football season .

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(obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,

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.

* 1605 , (Shakespeare), The Tragedy of Macbeth, III, 4

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

(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.

The third season of ''Friends'' aired from 1996 to 1997.

(obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.

* 1656 , , The Mortification of Sin

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.

Noun

(en noun)

A specific form or variation of something.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03

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A translation from one language to another.

(obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.

An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

(computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).

(medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.

(ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.

(obsolete, or, medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.

* Francis Bacon

The version of air into water.