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Meaning of season | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
[ˈsiː.zn̩]

Definitions

  1. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
  2. To become usable, competent, or tempered.
  3. A period of the year when something particular happens.
  4. To improve the flavor of something by adding salt, pepper, spices or herbs.
  5. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
  6. (negative unseasonable) (of weather) of the kind that is to be expected for a particular time of year. tydig مُلائِم، في أوانِه подходящ за сезона da época obvyklý (v tomto období) zeitgemäß sæsonmæssig; som passer til årstiden ανάλογος προς την εποχή (για καιρό) propio de la estación aastaajale vastav مناسب فصل vuodenajan mukainen de saisonעונתי उपयुक्त, संगत koji odgovara određenom dobu godine az évszaknak megfelelő sesuai dengan musim einkennandi fyrir ákveðið tímabil/árstíð di stagione 季節...
    negative
  7. The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
  8. done at a particular season only. seasonal work as a waitress; seasonal sports. seisoenaal مَوْسِمي сезонен sazonal sezónní saisonbedingt sæsonbestemt εποχιακόςde temporada hooajaline فصلي kausi- saisonnierעונתי मौसमी, ऋतुनिष्ठ, ऋतु sezonski, određen vremenom idényjellegű musiman árstíðabundinn stagionale 季節の 계절적 sezoninis sezonas- bermusim seizoen-sesong-sezonowy موسمى، فصلي sazonal sezonier, de sezon сезонный sezónny sezonski sezonski säsongs- ทำเฉพาะบางฤดูเท่านั้น mevsimlik 季節性的 сезонний ک...
  9. That which gives relish; seasoning.
    obsolete
  10. experienced. seasoned political campaigners. gehard مُجَرِّب، خَبير опитен experiente ostřílený erfahren erfaren έμπειροςexperimentado kogenud كارآزموده kokenut expérimentéמנוסה पका सिझाया iskusan, prokušan tapasztalt berpengalaman vanur, reyndur esperto ベテランの 숙련된 prityręs rūdīts; pieredzējis berpengalaman doorkneed -vant, erfaren zaprawiony, zahartowany کار آزموده experiente experimentat опытный ostrieľaný izkušen iskusan van, garvad เคยชิน; ช่ำชอง tecrübeli 有經驗的,飽經風霜的 досвідчений; загартова...
  11. 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.
    Australia, Canada, US
  12. something used to season food. Salt and pepper are used as seasonings. geursels تابِل подправка tempero koření das Gewürz krydderi άρτυμα, καρύκευμαcondimento, aliño maitseained چاشني mauste assaisonnement תַבלִינִים परिपक्वन, स्वादिष्ट बनाना začin, mirodija fűszer(ezés) bumbu krydd condimento 調味料 조미료 prieskonis, paskaninimas garšvielas perisa kruiderijkrydderprzyprawa مساله، دارو ( لكه مالګه مرچ دڼيااوداسې نور tempero ase­zonare приправа, специи korenie, koreniny začimba začin krydda, kryddn...
  13. An extended, undefined period of time.
    archaic
  14. a ticket (usually for travel) that can be used repeatedly during a certain period. a three-month season ticket. seisoenkaartjie تَذْكِرَه مَوسِمِيَّه абонаментна карта passe předplatní lístek die Zeitkarte abonnementskort εισιτήριο διαρκείαςabono hooajapilet بليط مدت دار kausilippu abonnement כַּרטִיס עוֹנָתִי मियादी टिकट, मौसमी टिकट predbrojka, pretplatna karta bérlet(jegy) tiket musiman áskriftarmiði abbonamento 定期券 정기권 nuolatinis bilietas sezonas biļete tiket langganan abonnementskaart ses...
    usually
  15. A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
  16. (of food) available, ready for eating. That fruit is not in season just now. in seisoen ، في وَقْتِه المُناسِب، مُتَوَفِّر време за na época být sezóna (čeho) zu haben årstiden for στην εποχή του de temporada valmis, hooaeg فصلي parhaimmillaan de saison בָּעוֹנָה उपयुक्त समय में dozrelo most van az ideje sedang musim fáanlegur á uppskerutíma/veiðitíma di stagione 出ざかりで 제철인 prinokęs, prisirpęs Šobrīd šim auglim nav sezona. sedia untuk dimakan van het seizoen årstida for, –tid dostępny, osiągal...
  17. The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
  18. not in season. uit seisoen لَيس في الوَقْت المُناسِب، غَيْر مُتَوَفِّر не е време за fora de época mimo sezónu nicht zu haben uden for sæsonen εκτός εποχήςtemporada baja pole valmis, pole hooaeg غيرفصلي sesonkiajan ulkopuolinen hors de saison לא בַּעוֹנָה मौके-बेमौके u nezgodan čas, neumjesno időszerűtlen di luar musim ófáanlegur fuori stagione 季節はずれで 제철이 아닌 ne laiku, ne sezono metu nav dabūjams/pieejams; nav sezona bukan musim niet van het seizoen utenfor sesongennieosiągalny غیر فصلی fora d...
  19. 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.
  20. One of the four natural divisions of the year, spring, summer, fall, and winter, in the North and South Temperate zones. Each season, beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, is characterized by specific meteorological or climatic conditions.

Equivalents

Afrikaans seisoen
العربية الفصل جزء موسم
Беларуская сезон
Български сезон
Cymraeg cyfres
Dansk sæson
Ελληνικά κύκλος
Esperanto sezono spicigi
Eesti hooaeg
Français aguerrir assaisonner épicer saison
Gaeilge léasaigh
Galego adobar tempada
עברית תיבל
हिन्दी बघारना
Հայերեն սեզոն
Bahasa Indonesia membumbui
Íslenska þáttaröð
ქართული სეზონი
한국어 시즌 양념하다
Kurdî nem nem sezon
Latina condio
Македонски сезона
Bahasa Melayu musim
Svenska krydda säsong
Українська сезон
Tiếng Việt mưa nem

Examples

“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.”
“mating season”
“the rainy season”
“the football season”
“Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.”
“Curry, a four-time NBA champion with the Warriors, played for the Wildcats for three seasons between 2006 and 2009, where he was twice named conference player of the year. […] Curry has been named NBA regular season MVP twice and is an 11-time All Star.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The third season of Robot Chicken aired from 2007 to 2008.”
“Or - is she Erin Gray in the second season of Buck Rogers beautiful?”
“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.”
“A season of great doubt fell upon her soul.”
“a season of faithlessness”

CEFR level

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