Definition of Season

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Season

One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy.

Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done; a suitable or convenient time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest.

A period of time not very long; a while; a time.

That which gives relish; seasoning.

To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.

To 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.

Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.

To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.

Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agrecable.

To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper.

To imbue; to tinge or taint.

To copulate with; to impregnate.

To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

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.

To give token; to savor.

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Season Quotations

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Jim Rohn

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
P. J. O'Rourke

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
Charles Spurgeon

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

Season Translations

season in Dutch is kruiden, op smaak brengen
season in Finnish is vuodenaika
season in French is saison
season in German is Jahreszeit, Jahreszeit, Saison
season in Italian is stagione, stagione, aromatizzare

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