A Quick and Simple Dictionary

season

1. Noun.  Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
2. Noun.  A part of a year when something particular happens: ''mating season'', ''rainy season'', ''football season''.
3. Noun.  (obsolete) That which gives relish.
4. Noun.  (cricket) the period over which a series of Test matches are played.
5. Noun.  (North America) 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.
6. Verb.  (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
8. Verb.  (transitive) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
9. Verb.  (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
10. Verb.  (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.