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Etymology
From w:Old English language|Old English sesoun, w:French language|French saison, (meaning properly, the sowing time), from w:Latin|Latin satio (meaning a sowing, a planting), from serere, satum, (to sow, plant); akin to English sow, (meaning to scatter, as seed).

Pronunciation
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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-i�z�n|-i�z�n

Noun
season (plural seasons)

1. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
2. <!--DefB-->A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season, rainy season, football season.
3. <!--DefC-->(Obsolete) that which gives relish

#:You lack the season of all natures, sleep. w:Shakespeare|Shakespeare

1. cricket the period over which a series of test matches are played

Related terms
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in season
out of season
seasonal
seasonally
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unseasonally
seasonable
unseasonable
unseasonably

Translations
trans-top|quarter of a year
Arabic: ARchar|�ص� IPAchar|(fa�l), ARchar|��س�|����س�� (mawsim)
Breton: koulz-amzer m
Bosnian: godišnje doba n
Catalan: estació f
Chinese: 季 (jì), 季� (jìjié)
Czech: ro�ní období n
Danish: årstid
Dutch: seizoen n, jaargetijde f
Esperanto: sezono
Finnish: vuodenaika
French: saison f
Frisian: jiertiid
German: Jahreszeit f
Greek: ε�ο�ή (epokhí) f
Hebrew: ע�נ� (oná) f
Hindi: म�सम (mausam) m
Hungarian: évszak
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Ido: sezono
Indonesian: musim
Italian: stagione f
Japanese: 季� (���, kisetsu)
Korean: �� (gyejeol)
Kurdish: KUchar|���رز
Lithuanian: metų laikas m
Persian: FAchar|��س� (mausam)
Polish: pora roku f
Portuguese: estação f
Romanian: sezon n, anotimp n
Russian: в�ем� года (vrémja góda) n
Serbian: doba n
Slovene: letni �as m
Spanish: estación f
Swedish: årstid c
Turkish: mevsim
Urdu: URchar|��س� (mausam) m
Yiddish: צײַ� פ�� ��ָר (tseit fon yar)
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trans-top|part of year with something special
Bosnian: sezona f
Czech: sezóna f
Danish: sæson
Dutch: seizoen n
Finnish: kausi
Hungarian: évad
Italian: stagione f
Lithuanian: metas m, sezonas m
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Portuguese: temporada f
Polish: sezon m
Russian: �езон (sezón) m
Slovene: sezona f
Swedish: säsong c
Turkish: mevsim, sezon
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trans-top|(Obsolete) that which gives relish
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Transitive verb
rfc-trverb|Transitive verb
to season (seasons, seasoned, seasoning)

1. <!--DefD--> to flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
2. <!--DefE--> 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.
3. <!--DefH-->hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.

Translations
trans-top|to flavour food
Breton: temzañ, sasuniñ
Catalan: condimentar, amanir
Chinese: ���
Czech: oko�enit
Dutch: kruiden
Esperanto: spicigi
Finnish: maustaa, höystää
French: épicer, assaisonner
German: würzen
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Hebrew: ת��� (tee-BEL)
Indonesian: bumbu|membumbui
Italian: condire, insaporire
Japanese: ����� (������, ajitsukesuru)
Lithuanian: skaninti, gardinti
Polish: przyprawi�, przyprawia�
Portuguese: condimentar, temperar
Romanian: condimenta
Spanish: adobar, aliñar, condimentar, sazonar
Yiddish: צ�ר���� (tzu-RIKH-ten)
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trans-top|'to make fit for any use by time or habit
Dutch: zich aanpassen
Italian: addestrare, allenare, acclimatare
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trans-top|to prepare by drying or hardening
Italian: stagionare
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Intransitive verb
to season (seasons, seasoned, seasoning)

1. <!--DefF--> to become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
2. <!--DefG--> 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.

Translations
trans-top|to become mature
Dutch: rijpen, rijp worden
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trans-top|to become dry and hard
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