season

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One of the four parts of the year: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

   Autumn is my favourite season of the year.

2. 2
   noun

   A period of the year when a particular activity or event happens.

   It is hard to find a hotel during the tourist season.

3. 3
   noun

   A period of the year marked by a major holiday.

   The shops are always busy during the Christmas season.

4. 4
   verb

   To add salt, pepper, or other flavourings to food.

   Season the soup with a little salt and pepper.

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Simplified etymology

Season came through Old French seson from a Latin word that first meant “sowing” and later “time of sowing,” ultimately from serere, “to sow.” The early verb meaning “add flavouring” developed from an Old French sense “ripen or make palatable through the influence of the seasons.”

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”)).

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