season
English
/ˈsiːzən/, /ˈsizən/
noun
Definitions
- Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
- A part of a year when something particular happens
- (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
- (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- (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.
- (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.
- (video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- (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.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English seson, sesoun (time of the year) derived from Old French seson, saison (time of sowing, seeding) derived from Latin satiō (planting, act of sowing, sowing) derived from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (sow, plant, sort, late, long, lineup, line up), *seh₁- (sow, plant, sort, late, long, lineup, line up).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₁-
Gloss
sow, plant, sort, late, long, lineup, line up
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
並
Emoji
🐖
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -tide English
- Montreal seasoning English
- aseasonal English
- coseasonal English
- hyperseasonal English
- interseason English
- interseasonal English
- intraseason English
- intraseasonal English
- long English
- midseason English
- miniseason English
- multiseason English
- multiseasonal English
- nonseason English
- nonseasonal English
- overseason English
- periseasonal English
- postseason English
- preseason English
- preseasonal English
- pseudoseasonal English
- reseason English
- seal English
- seasonable English
- seasonableness English
- seasonably English
- seasonage English
- seasonal English
- seasonality English
- seasonalization English
- seasonalize English
- seasonally English
- seasoner English
- seasonest English
- seasoneth English
- seasonful English
- seasoning English
- seasonless English
- seasonlessness English
- seasonlong English
- sele English
- tide English
- underseason English
- uniseasonal English
- unseason English
- unseasonable English
- unseasonal English
- yesterseason English
- desertus Latin
- disertus Latin
- dissero Latin
- insero Latin
- saeculum Latin
- satiō Latin
- serus Latin
- sors Latin
- sortis, sors Latin
- sēmen Latin
- sēra Latin
- *dī- Proto-Indo-European
- *seh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *seh₁mon- Proto-Indo-European
- *seh₁tis Proto-Indo-European
- *si-sh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *séh₁mn̥ Proto-Indo-European
- *yekə- Proto-Indo-European
- *sājan- Proto-Germanic
- *sēaną Proto-Germanic
- *sēdiz Proto-Germanic
- *sīþuz Proto-Germanic
- *tīdiz Proto-Germanic
- シーズン Japanese
- sædcelle Norwegian Nynorsk
- antid Old English
- asawan Old English
- bedtid Old English
- besawan Old English
- cenningtid Old English
- cirictid Old English
- dægtid Old English
- geondsawan Old English
- gesawan Old English
- healf tid Old English
- metetid Old English
- ofersawan Old English
- sawend Old English
- seolh Old English
- sæl Old English
- sælþ Old English
- sāwan Old English
- sǣl Old English
- tidlice Old English
- tidwritere Old English
- tosawan Old English
- tīd Old English
- wintertid Old English
- sele Middle English
- seson, sesoun Middle English
- tide Middle English
- tidely Middle English
- séasún Irish
- sáð Old Norse
- sæði Old Norse
- sæðingr Old Norse
- *sěati Proto-Slavic
- *sě̀jati Proto-Slavic
- saison Old French
- seson, saison Old French
- seson, seison Old French
- sílne Old Irish
- *sālī gmw-pro
- *satos Proto-Celtic
- *sīlom Proto-Celtic
- *sīnīti Proto-Celtic
- sason Occitan
- seil Scots
- sêson Franco-Provençal
- seal
- sele
- long
- tide
- -tide
- reseason
- seasonal
- unseason
- seasoner
- seasoneth
- aseasonal
- midseason
- seasonage
- seasonful
- seasonest
- seasoning
- preseason
- nonseason
- postseason
- seasonally
- seasonless
- seasonable
- miniseason
- seasonlong
- overseason
- seasonably
- coseasonal
- unseasonal
- multiseason
- nonseasonal
- preseasonal
- seasonalize
- seasonality
- uniseasonal
- intraseason
- underseason
- interseason
- yesterseason
- unseasonable
- periseasonal
- hyperseasonal
- interseasonal
- intraseasonal
- multiseasonal
- seasonableness
- seasonlessness
- pseudoseasonal
- seasonalization
- Montreal seasoning