Season definition
Season is a noun meaning "a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field." It has 6 meanings, as a noun and a verb, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun, verb
- Syllables
- 2
- Letters
- 6
- How common
- Everyday word
Season as a noun
a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
"he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company"
one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
"the regular sequence of the seasons"
Same sense: time of year
a recurrent time marked by major holidays
"it was the Christmas season"
Season as a verb
lend flavor to
"Season the chicken breast after roasting it"
Same sense: flavor, flavour
make healthy
"This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
Same sense: harden
make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
Same sense: moderate, temper, mollify
Synonyms and antonyms
- time of year
- flavor
- flavour
- harden
- moderate
- temper
- mollify
How to say season
Season has 2 syllables and rhymes with reason. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with season
- reason
- treason
- preseason
- bedizen
SEASON in word games
- Scrabble
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Anagrams
- 0
Is SEASON a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check SEASON in the word checker, or unscramble SEASON to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.