English Dictionary

season

/ˈsiː.zən/

noun

Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter / A part of a year when something particular happens.

I love the spring season when flowers bloom and the weather gets warmer.

意味（1）

Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter

we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection

意味（2）

A part of a year when something particular happens.

mating season

意味（3）

A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.

He seldom was seen in the office himself, but occasionally a paragraph in the paper recorded that his yacht had touched at Mentone and that he had been seen at the Monte Carlo tables, or that he was expected in Leicestershire for the season.

意味（4）

(cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.

意味（5）

(obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.

O! she is fallen

Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea

Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,

And salt too little which may season give

O! she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul-tainted flesh.

意味（6）

(Canada, US, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

The third season of Friends aired from 1996 to 1997.

意味（7）

(archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.

So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season, being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.

意味（8）

(video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.

意味（9）

(video games) A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.