Season Year Time Holiday ˈsiːzn Period Full Scored

• the changing seasons
• the cricket/hunting/shooting, etc. season
• he scored his first goal of the season on saturday.
• the female changes colour during the breeding season.

season

1. any of the four main periods of the year: spring, summer, autumn/fall and winter
• the changing seasons
2. a period of the year in tropical countries when it is either very dry or it rains a lot
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/hunting/shooting, etc. season
• He scored his first goal of the season on Saturday.
• The female changes colour during the breeding season.
• The hotels are always full during the peak season (= when most people are on holiday/vacation).
• 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)
4. a period of time in which a play is shown in one place; a series of plays, films/movies 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.
6. easily available and ready to eat because it is the right time of year for them
• Strawberries are now in season.
7. ready to reproduce
• synonym be on heat
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/heat_1
8. not easily available because it is not the right time of year for them
9. at the times of year when few people go on holiday/vacation
• Hotels are cheaper out of season.
10. used at Christmas to wish somebody an enjoyable holiday

Extra Examples

• Best wishes for the festive season!
• Decker played nine major league seasons.
• Fleet Street’s silly season is upon us.
• He entered the season with 173 wins.
• He is busily preparing for the coming season.
• He played a full season for West Ham.
• I wished everyone a very happy holiday season.
• In this climate there are no real changes of temperature, just a wet and a dry season.
• It is illegal to fish for salmon during the closed season.
• It was the final race of a hard season.
• Lobster’s out of season right now.
• Melons are in season right now.
• Melons are just coming into season.
• Our team won the trophy for the second successive season.
• Season ticket holders do not have to queue.
• The Denver Broncos’ inaugural season was 1960.
• The Patriots won their last 12 games in the regular season.
• The Senator has led in the polls for most of the primary season.
• The hotel is almost empty in the off season.
• The media have declared open season on the congressman and his private life.
• The party conference season gets under way this week.
• The resort gets overcrowded in peak season.
• The team trained hard during the close season and won its first five matches.
• The team trained hard during the close/off season.
• They played against the Celtics in the season opener.
• This year’s flu season has been relatively mild.
• We opened the season with five straight losses.
• It’s much cheaper to buy a season ticket.
• She scored her first goal of the season on Saturday.
• The fashion magazines are full of the new look for the spring season.
• The hotels are always full during the peak season.
• This season’s look is soft and romantic.
• the breeding/mating/growing/planting season
• the cricket/hunting/shooting season
• the holiday season.
• the tourist season

Word Origin

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