season
noun /ˈsiːzn/
/ˈsiːzn/
Idioms - any of the four main periods of the year: spring, summer, autumn and winter
- the changing seasons
- Autumn is my favourite season.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dry
- hurricane
- monsoon
- …
- be in
- come into
- be out of
- …
- the dry/rainy/wet season 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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dry
- hurricane
- monsoon
- …
- be in
- come into
- be out of
- …
- a period of time during a year when a particular activity happens or is done
- 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).
- (British English) the holiday season
- (especially North American English) the tourist season
- (North American English) the holiday season (= the time of Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year)
- (British English) 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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- baseball
- cricket
- football
- …
- begin
- open
- start
- …
- begin
- kick off
- start
- …
- ticket
- opener
- 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
- 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.
- (especially North American English) a set of television or radio programmes that have the same characters or deal with the same subject synonym series (1)
- 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)
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French seson, from Latin satio(n-) ‘sowing’, later ‘time of sowing’, from the root of serere ‘to sow’.
Idioms
be in season | come into season
- (of fruit or vegetables) 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.
- (of a female animal) be/become ready to have sex and produce young synonym on heat
out of season
- (of fruit or vegetables) not easily available because it is not the right time of year for them
- Lobster's out of season right now.
- at the times of year when few people go on holiday
- Hotels are cheaper out of season.
season’s greetings
- used during the Christmas period to wish somebody a pleasant holiday