- any of the four main periods of the year: spring, summer, autumn and winter
- the changing seasons
- Autumn is my favourite season.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dry
- hurricane
- monsoon
- …
- be in
- come into
- be out of
- …
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- the dry/rainy/wet season a period of the year in tropical countries when it is either very dry or it rains a lot
- In this climate there are no real changes of temperature, just a wet and a dry season.
- Next month is the start of the rainy season.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dry
- hurricane
- monsoon
- …
- be in
- come into
- be out of
- …
- a period of time during a year when a particular activity happens or is done
- the cricket/football/hunting/shooting season
- He scored his first goal of the season on Saturday.
- They achieved their first win of the season.
- He will not be offered a new contract at the end of the season.
- The team have had a dream start to the season.
- The female changes colour during the breeding season.
- The growing season for these trees varies depending on species.
- We're in the middle of the roughest hurricane season we've seen in quite some time.
- The hotels are always full during the peak season (= when most people are on holiday).
- (British English) the holiday season
- (especially North American English) the tourist season
- (North American English) the holiday season (= the time of Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year)
- (British English) the festive season (= Christmas and New Year)
- the summer blockbuster season
Extra Examples- She scored her first goal of the season on Saturday.
- We opened the season with five straight losses.
- This year's flu season has been relatively mild.
- They played against the Celtics in the season opener.
- The resort gets overcrowded in peak season.
- The party conference season gets under way this week.
- The Senator has led in the polls for most of the primary season.
- The Patriots won their last 12 games in the regular season.
- The Denver Broncos' inaugural season was 1960.
- Our team won the trophy for the second successive season.
- It was the final race of a hard season.
- I wished everyone a very happy holiday season.
- He played a full season for West Ham.
- He is busily preparing for the coming season.
- He entered the season with 173 wins.
- Decker played nine major league seasons.
- He hurt his knee, so he was out the rest of the season.
- They finished the season unbeaten.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- baseball
- cricket
- football
- …
- begin
- open
- start
- …
- begin
- kick off
- start
- …
- ticket
- opener
- a period of time in which a play is shown in one place; a series of plays, films or television programmes
- The play opens for a second season in London next week.
- a season of films by Alfred Hitchcock
- a period of time during one year when a particular style of clothes, hair, etc. is popular and fashionable
- This season's look is soft and romantic.
- The fashion magazines are full of the new look for the spring season.
- (especially North American English) a set of television or radio programmes that have the same characters or deal with the same subject synonym series (1)
- The show begins its second season next week.
- I binge-watched an entire season of ‘Succession’ (= watched all of the episodes on one occasion) on Sunday.
- I can't wait to see the season finale (= last episode in the season).
- the season opener (= the first episode in the season)
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French seson, from Latin satio(n-) ‘sowing’, later ‘time of sowing’, from the root of serere ‘to sow’.
Idioms
See season in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee season in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbe in season | come into season
- (of fruit or vegetables) be/become easily available and ready to eat because it is the right time of year for them
- Strawberries are now in season.
- Melons are just coming into season.
- (of a female animal) be/become ready to have sex and produce young synonym on heat
out of season
- (of fruit or vegetables) not easily available because it is not the right time of year for them
- Lobster's out of season right now.
- at the times of year when few people go on holiday
- Hotels are cheaper out of season.
season’s greetings
- used during the Christmas period to wish somebody a pleasant holiday
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