Season Year Time Period Holiday ˈsiːzn Autumn Dry

• the changing seasons
• autumn is my favourite season.
• in this climate there are no real changes of temperature, just a wet and a dry season.
• next month is the start of the rainy season.

season

1. any of the four main periods of the year: spring, summer, autumn and winter
• SEE ALSO growing season
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/growing-season
• the changing seasons
• Autumn is my favourite season.
2. a period of the year in tropical countries when it is either very dry or it rains a lot
• In this climate there are no real changes of temperature, just a wet and a dry season.
• Next month is the start of the rainy season.
3. a period of time during a year when a particular activity happens or is done
• SEE ALSO close season
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/close-season
• the cricket/football/hunting/shooting season
• He scored his first goal of the season on Saturday.
• They achieved their first win of the season.
• He will not be offered a new contract at the end of the season.
• The team have had a dream start to the season.
• The female changes colour during the breeding season.
• The growing season for these trees varies depending on species.
• We're in the middle of the roughest hurricane season we've seen in quite some time.
• The hotels are always full during the peak season (= when most people are on holiday).
• the holiday season
• the tourist season
• the holiday season (= the time of Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year)
• the festive season (= Christmas and New Year)
• the summer blockbuster season

Extra Examples

• She scored her first goal of the season on Saturday.
• We opened the season with five straight losses.
• This year's flu season has been relatively mild.
• They played against the Celtics in the season opener.
• The resort gets overcrowded in peak season.
• The party conference season gets under way this week.
• The Senator has led in the polls for most of the primary season.
• The Patriots won their last 12 games in the regular season.
• The Denver Broncos' inaugural season was 1960.
• Our team won the trophy for the second successive season.
• It was the final race of a hard season.
• I wished everyone a very happy holiday season.
• He played a full season for West Ham.
• He is busily preparing for the coming season.
• He entered the season with 173 wins.
• Decker played nine major league seasons.
• He hurt his knee, so he was out the rest of the season.
• They finished the season unbeaten.
4. a period of time in which a play is shown in one place; a series of plays, films or television programmes
• The play opens for a second season in London next week.
• a season of films by Alfred Hitchcock
5. a period of time during one year when a particular style of clothes, hair, etc. is popular and fashionable
• This season's look is soft and romantic.
• The fashion magazines are full of the new look for the spring season.
6. a set of television or radio programmes that have the same characters or deal with the same subject
• SYNONYM series (1)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/series#series_sng_2
• The show begins its second season next week.
• I binge-watched an entire season of ‘Mad Men’ (= watched all of the episodes on one occasion) on Sunday.
• I can't wait to see the season finale (= last episode in the season).
• the season opener (= the first episode in the season)
7. be/become easily available and ready to eat because it is the right time of year for them
• Strawberries are now in season.
• Melons are just coming into season.
8. be/become ready to have sex and produce young
• SYNONYM on heat
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/heat_1
9. not easily available because it is not the right time of year for them
• Lobster's out of season right now.
10. at the times of year when few people go on holiday
• Hotels are cheaper out of season.
11. used during the Christmas period to wish somebody a pleasant holiday

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French seson, from Latin satio(n-) ‘sowing’, later ‘time of sowing’, from the root of serere ‘to sow’.