单词 | season |
释义 | season/ˈsiːz(ə)n![]() noun 1Each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth’s changing position with regard to the sun.Now most places in the world you have four seasons; winter, spring, summer, fall but not so in Barbados....
1.1A period of the year characterized by a particular climatic feature or marked by a particular activity, event, or festivity: the rainy season the season for gathering pine needles...
Synonyms period, active period, time, time of year, spell, term, phase, stage 1.2A fixed time in the year when a particular sporting activity is pursued: the English cricket season is almost upon us...
1.3The time of year when a particular fruit, vegetable, or other food is plentiful and in good condition: the pies are made with fruit that is in season new season’s lamb...
Synonyms available, obtainable, readily available/obtainable, to be had, on offer, on the market, growing, common, plentiful, abundant 1.4 (the season) A time of year traditionally adopted by the English upper classes for a series of fashionable social events.Last night saw the social event of the season in Birmingham....
1.5 archaic A proper or suitable time: to everything there is a season...
1.6 archaic An indefinite or unspecified period of time; a while: this most beautiful soul; who walked with me for a season in this world...
2chiefly North American A set or sequence of related television programmes; a series: the first two seasons of the show...
3A period when a female mammal is ready to mate: the bitch can come into season at irregular intervals verb [with object] 1Add salt, herbs, pepper, or other spices to (food): season the soup to taste with salt and pepper...
Synonyms flavour, add flavouring to, add salt/pepper to, spice, add spices/herbs to informal pep up, add zing to 1.1Add a quality or feature to (something), especially so as to make it more lively or exciting: his conversation is seasoned liberally with exclamation points and punch lines...
Synonyms enliven, leaven, add spice to, enrich, liven up, animate, augment informal pep up, add zest/zing to 2Make (wood) suitable for use as timber by adjusting its moisture content to that of the environment in which it will be used: I collect and season most of my wood...
Synonyms mature, age, mellow, condition, acclimatize, temper, prepare, prime, ripen Phrasesfor all seasons in season out of season season's greetings OriginMiddle English: from Old French seson, from Latin satio(n-) 'sowing', later 'time of sowing', from the root of serere 'to sow'.
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