seasonnoun詞源 1[ˈsiː.zn̩]

• 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 perfection
  • We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, / But the wine and the song, / like the seasons, have all gone.
• 2

  A period of the year when something particular happens.

  • mating season
  • the football season
• 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.
• 4

  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

  ball-gamescricketgamesThe period over which a series of Test matches are played.

• 6

  obsoleteThat 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.
  • You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
• 7

  broadcastingmediaA 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.
  • Or - is she Erin Gray in the second season of Buck Rogers beautiful?
• 8

  archaicAn extended, undefined period of time.

  • It was the Winter wilde. While the Heav’n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies: Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim, With her great Maſter ſo to ſympathize: It was no ſeaſon then for her To wanton with the Sun her luſty Paramour.
  • 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.

seasonverb詞源 1[ˈsiː.zn̩]

• 1

  To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.

  • to season oneself to a climate
• 2

  To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.

  • The timber needs to be seasoned.
• 3

  To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

• 4

  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

  To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.

• 6

  obsoleteTo impregnate (literally or figuratively).

  • When the male hath once ſeaſoned the female, he neuer after toucheth her.
  • For this prince[…]would not ſuffer the Buls to come unto the Kine and ſeaſon them, before they were both foure yeares old.

seasonverb詞源 2[ˈsiː.zn̩]

• 1

  To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.