season

season
1 /'si:zFn/ noun
1 IN A YEAR (C) one of the four main periods in a year; spring, summer, autumn, or winter
2 USUAL TIME FOR STH (singular) a period of time in a year when something happens most often or when something is usually done: rainy/dry/wet etc season (=when there is a lot of rain etc) | growing/raspberry/asparagus etc season (=when particular plants are growing) | hunting/shooting/fishing etc season (=when you can do that sport) | mating/breeding season (=when animals breed) | football/basketball etc season (=when a sport is officially played) | tourist season AmE, holiday season BrE (=the time of year when people come to a particular place for a holiday) | high/peak season (=the time of year when a place is most busy, especially a holiday place) | low/off/slack season (=the time of year when a place or company is not busy) | the holiday season AmE (=Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's)
3 be in season
a) if vegetables or fruit are in season, it is the time of year when they are ready to eat
b) if a female animal is in season, she is ready to mate 2 (1)
4 out of season
a) if vegetables or fruit are out of season, it is not the time of year when they would normally become ready to eat
b) if you travel or stay somewhere out of season, you do it at the time of year when most people do not
5 FASHION (C) a time during which particular designs of clothes are produced and sold and are considered to be fashionable: The Paris season began in May.
6 FILMS ETC (singular) a time during which a series of films, television programmes etc is shown, especially ones made by the same person or about the same subject: a new season of comedy on BBC
7 season's greetings used especially on greetings cards to say that you hope someone has a happy Christmas
8 the season of good will the time around Christmas
—see also: close season, open season, silly season 2 verb (T)
1 to add salt, pepper etc to something you are cooking to make it taste better
2 to make wood hard and ready to use by gradually drying it

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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