season
[ˈsi.zn̩]
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.48 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season, depending on the climate.
noun
A period of the year when something particular happens.
noun
A year, but with emphasis on the most important part of the year in context, such as the months when plants or animals grow and reproduce.
noun
The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
Example Sentences
- "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 football season"
- "the holiday 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."
Etymology
From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [ˈsi.zn̩]
- British English: [ˈsiː.zn̩]