season

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

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.
Đồng nghĩa: yeartide, yeartime
2.
A period of the year when something particular happens.
mating season
the football season
the holiday season
3.
A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
4.
(metonymically)(pars pro toto, metonymic) 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.
(cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
6.
(obsolete)That which gives relish; seasoning.
7.
(Australia, Canada, US)(Canada, US, Australia, 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 Robot Chicken aired from 2007 to 2008.
Đồng nghĩa: series
8.
(archaic)An extended, undefined period of time.
9.
(Evangelical Christianity) A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
a season of faithlessness
10.
(video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
11.
(video games) A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.

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verb

V_es/s

seasons

V_ing/Gerund

seasoning

V_ed/pp

seasoned

1.
(transitive)To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
to season oneself to a climate
2.
(broadly, transitive)(transitive, by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
The timber needs to be seasoned.
3.
(intransitive)To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
4.
(intransitive)To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
The wood has seasoned in the sun.
5.
(transitive)To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
6.
(obsolete)To impregnate (literally or figuratively).
7.
(transitive)To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

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Đồng nghĩa

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seasoning unseason

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English sesoun, seson (time of the year), from Old French seson, saison (time of sowing, seeding), from Latin satiō (act of sowing, planting) from satum, past participle of serō (to sow, plant) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (to sow, plant). Akin to sāwan to sow, sǣd (seed). saison. Displaced native sele season (from sǣl), tide (from tīd).