- season
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun1 of the yearADJECTIVE▪ dry, hurricane, monsoon, rainy, wet▪
In this climate there are no real changes of temperature, just a wet and a dry season.
▪ summer, winter, etc.VERB + SEASON▪ be in, come into (esp. AmE)▪Melons are in season right now.
▪ be out of▪Lobster's out of season right now.
2 period when an activity takes placeADJECTIVE▪ holiday (= when people are on holiday/vacation) (BrE), tourist▪ high (esp. BrE), peak▪The resort gets overcrowded in peak season.
▪ low, off▪The hotel is almost empty in the off season.
▪ coming, forthcoming (BrE), upcoming (esp. AmE)▪ breeding, mating, nesting▪ growing, harvest, planting▪ close (BrE), closed▪It is illegal to fish for salmon during the closed season.
▪ open (often figurative)▪The media have declared open season on the congressman and his private life.
▪ political (esp. AmE)▪ campaign, election, primary (all AmE)▪The Senator has led in the polls for most of the primary season.
▪ conference (BrE)▪The party conference season gets under way this week.
▪ silly (BrE)▪Fleet Street's silly season is upon us.
▪ flu (esp. AmE)▪This year's flu season has been relatively mild.
▪ movie, TV (both esp. AmE)▪ Christmas, festive (BrE), holiday (= the time including Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year) (AmE)▪Best wishes for the festive season!
▪I wished everyone a very happy holiday season.
▪ panto (informal), pantomime (both BrE)PHRASES▪ the height of the season3 period when a sport is playedADJECTIVE▪ baseball, cricket, football, hunting, racing, etc.▪ championship, league▪Decker played nine major league seasons. (AmE)
▪ junior, senior, sophomore (all AmE)▪ debut (esp. BrE), rookie (AmE)▪ inaugural▪The Denver Broncos' inaugural season was 1960.
▪ regular (AmE)▪The Patriots won their last 12 games in the regular season.
▪ full▪He played a full season for West Ham.
▪ difficult, hard, tough (all esp. BrE)▪It was the final race of a hard season.
▪ outstanding, successful, undefeated (esp. AmE), winning (esp. AmE)▪ disappointing, disastrous, poor (esp. BrE)▪ coming, forthcoming (BrE), upcoming (esp. AmE)▪He is busily preparing for the coming season.
▪ close (BrE), off (AmE)▪The team trained hard during the close/off season.
▪ consecutive, successive▪Our team won the trophy for the second successive season.
VERB + SEASON▪ begin, open, start▪We opened the season with five straight losses.
▪ end, finish▪ enter▪He entered the season with 173 wins.
SEASON + VERB▪ begin, kick off (esp. BrE), start▪The new Premiership season kicks off on August 17.
▪ endSEASON + NOUN▪ ticket▪season ticket holders
▪ opener (AmE)▪They played against the Celtics in the season opener.
◆◆◆NOTE: Seasons▪ have …▪Perhaps we will have a good summer this year.
▪ spend …▪I spent the winter indoors.
▪ … approaches▪The days become longer and temperatures rise as spring approaches.
▪ … arrives, … begins, … comes▪Winter arrived early that year.
▪ winter sets in▪The aid must reach the refugees before winter sets in.
▪ … passes, … wears on (usually used of summer or winter)▪As the summer wore on, food became scarce.
▪ … comes to an end, … ends (usually used of summer or winter)▪Winter was coming to an end at last.
▪ … months, summer/winter period, spring/summer/winter time (usually springtime, etc.)▪The museum is open daily during the summer months.
▪It was springtime and the slopes were ablaze with almond blossoms.
▪ … day, … morning, … night, etc.▪It's hard to sleep on hot summer nights.
▪ during (the) … , in (the) …▪The woods are carpeted with flowers in spring.
▪ over the summer/winter▪The repairs will be carried out over the summer.
▪ through (the) … , throughout (the) …▪The meat is salted so it keeps through the winter.
▪ for (the) …▪She's gone to Ireland for the summer.
▪ the … of 2008, etc.▪The winter of 2001 was especially cold.
▪ a summer's day, a summer's night, etc., a winter's day, a winter's morning, etc.▪a lazy summer's day
▪ all summer long, all winter long▪It rained all summer long.
▪ the height of summer, the depths of winter▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}He always wore a short-sleeved shirt, even in the depths of winter.
verbADVERB▪ lightly, wellPREPOSITION▪ with▪Season the meat well with salt and pepper.
PHRASES▪ highly seasoned▪highly seasoned food
Season is used with these nouns as the object: ↑timber
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
