season
noun
[ ˈsiːz(ə)n ]
• each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.
• a set or sequence of related television programmes; a series.
• "the first two seasons of the show"
• a period when a female mammal is ready to mate.
• "the bitch can come into season at irregular intervals"
season
verb
• add salt, herbs, pepper, or other spices to (food).
• "season the soup to taste with salt and pepper"
Similar:
flavour,
add flavouring to,
add salt/pepper to,
spice,
add spices/herbs to,
pep up,
add zing to,
• make (wood) suitable for use as timber by adjusting its moisture content to that of the environment in which it will be used.
• "I collect and season most of my wood"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French seson, from Latin satio(n- ) ‘sowing’, later ‘time of sowing’, from the root of serere ‘to sow’.
in season
• (of a fruit, vegetable, or other food) grown or available at the time of year in question.
• "buy fruit and vegetables that are in season"
• (of a female mammal) ready to mate.
• "this system of communication works very well, especially when a female is in season"
• at the right or proper time.
• "they arrive in season for the meeting"
