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Word: season
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A part of a year when something particular happens: ''mating season'', ''rainy season'', ''football season''.
- cricket the period over which a series of test matches are played
- Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
- North American 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.
- obsolete That which gives relish.
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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.
- intransitive To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
- transitive Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
- transitive To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
- 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.
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