season
noun B1- Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season, depending on the climate.
- A period of the year when something particular happens. · mating season· the football season
- A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
- A year, but with emphasis on the most important part of the year in context, such as the months when plants or animals grow and reproduce. · This invasive species reproduces so rapidly that it can completely take over an area in just a couple seasons.
- The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
- The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- 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.
Plural seasons
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His brief season of elegant luxury would be doubly enjoyable if he could add to it a lady’s society.
It was neither the season nor the hour when the Park had frequenters; and it is likely that the young lady, who was seated on one of the benches at the side of the walk, had merely obeyed a sudden impulse to sit for a while and enjoy a foretaste of coming Spring.
“Free People, and ye too, jackals of Shere Khan, for twelve seasons I have led ye to and from the kill, and in all that time not one has been trapped or maimed.
He has troubled the jungle for ten seasons.
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