Dictionary entry details
• SEASON (noun)
Meaning:
A period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context examples:
he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company / she always looked forward to the avocado season
Hypernyms ("season" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "season"):
fishing season (the season during which it is legal to catch fish)
football season (the season when football is played)
hockey season (the season when hockey is played)
hunting season (the season during which it is legal to kill a particular species)
social season (the season for major social events)
theatrical season (the season when new plays are produced)
Whitsun; Whitsuntide; Whitweek (Christian holiday; the week beginning on Whitsunday (especially the first 3 days))
exhibition season (the time before the regular games begin when football or baseball teams play practice games)
basketball season (the season when basketball is played)
baseball season (the season when baseball is played)
growing season (the season during which a crop grows best)
seedtime (the time during which seeds should be planted)
sheepshearing (the time or season when sheep are sheared)
holiday season (a time when many people take holidays)
high season; peak season (the season when travel is most active and rates are highest)
off-season (the season when travel is least active and rates are lowest)
preseason (a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation)
Meaning:
One of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
time of year; season
Context example:
the regular sequence of the seasons
Hypernyms ("season" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "season"):
harvest; harvest time (the season for gathering crops)
dry season; rainy season (one of the two seasons in tropical climates)
winter; wintertime (the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox)
summer; summertime (the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox)
spring; springtime (the season of growth)
autumn; fall (the season when the leaves fall from the trees)
haying; haying time (the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder)
Holonyms ("season" is a part of...):
year (the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun)
Meaning:
A recurrent time marked by major holidays
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
it was the Christmas season
Hypernyms ("season" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "season"):
Lent; Lententide (a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
Shrovetide (immediately preceding Lent)
Advent (the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas)
Christmas; Christmastide; Christmastime; Noel; Yule; Yuletide (period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6)
Allhallowtide (the season of All Saints' Day)
Twelfthtide (the season of Epiphany)
Eastertide (the Easter season)
Lammastide (the season of Lammas)
Michaelmastide (the season of Michaelmas)
• SEASON (verb)
Meaning:
Lend flavor to
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
flavor; flavour; season
Context example:
Season the chicken breast after roasting it
Cause:
savor; savour; taste (have flavor; taste of something)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "season"):
sauce (dress (food) with a relish)
curry (season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking)
resinate (impregnate with resin to give a special flavor to)
spice; spice up; zest (add herbs or spices to)
savor; savour (give taste to)
salt (add salt to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make fit
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
season; harden
Context example:
This trip will season even the hardiest traveller
Hypernyms (to "season" is one way to...):
toughen (make tough or tougher)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
mollify; season; temper
Context example:
she tempered her criticism
Hypernyms (to "season" is one way to...):
weaken (lessen the strength of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
