Definition of season

"season" in the noun sense

1. season

a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field

"he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company"

"she always looked forward to the avocado season"

2. season, time of year

one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions

"the regular sequence of the seasons"

3. season

a recurrent time marked by major holidays

"it was the Christmas season"

"season" in the verb sense

1. season, flavor, flavour

lend flavor to

"Season the chicken breast after roasting it"

2. season, harden

make fit

"This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"

3. temper, season, mollify, moderate

make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else

"she tempered her criticism"

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Quotations for season

Falsehood is for a season. [ Landor ]

To everything there is a season. [ Bible ]

Season your admiration for awhile. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing is good but in its season. [ Proverb ]

Every thing is good in its season. [ Proverb ]

No season now for calm, familiar talk. [ Homer ]

The saddest birds a season find to sing. [ Southwell ]

All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Riches like insects when concealed they lie,
Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. [ Pope ]

A word spoken in due season, how good is it? [ Bible ]

The sluggard's convenient season never comes. [ Proverb ]

The love of a woman, and a bottle of wine,
Are sweet for a season, but last a short time. [ Proverb ]

He that hath the spices may season as he list. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In this world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
To sleep for a season and hear no word
Of true love's truth or of light love's art,
Only the song of a secret bird. [ Swinburne ]

She that hath spice enough may season as she likes. [ Proverb ]

O merciful Heaven! may my last season be still a spring! [ Beranger ]

Patience - with patience everything comes in due season. [ Laboulaye ]

If fools should not fool it they shall lose their season. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No man can gather cherries in Kent at the season of Christmas. [ Proverb ]

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

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages. [ Carlyle ]

Where love enters to season a dish, I believe it will please any one. [ Plaut ]

A good season for courtship is, when the widow returns from the funeral. [ Proverb ]

Youth is eminently the fittest season for establishing habits of industry. [ Dr. Farr ]

The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. [ L'Estrange ]

A mother who doesn't part with a daughter every season has no real affection. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Hope for a season bade the world farewell, and Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell. [ Campbell ]

Secure their religion; season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Beauty, frail flower that every season fears, blooms in thy colors for a thousand years. [ Pope ]

I know not any season of life that is passed more agreeably than that of virtuous old age. [ Cicero ]

The London season is entirely matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands or hiding from them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart. [ W. Irving ]

The compliments of the season to my worthy masters, and a merry first of April to us all. We have all a speck of the motley. [ Lamb ]

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies: but sensible men will pay no attention to them. [ Froude ]

No part of diet, in any season, is so healthful, so natural, and so agreeable to the stomach, as good and well-ripened fruits. [ Sir W. Temple ]

The scholar only knows how dear these silent yet eloquent companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. [ Washington Irving ]

Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirit; wherefore jesting is not unlawful, if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality or season. [ Fuller ]

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Its brightness, mighty divinity! has a fleeting empire over the day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers, the season of the loves, harmonious hour of wakening birds. [ Calderon ]

The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the death of eminent persons and of their behavior in that dreadful season. [ Addison ]

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. [ Carlyle ]

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. [ Dickens ]

Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]

Joy wholly from without, is false, precarious, and short. From without it may be gathered; but, like gathered flowers, though fair, and sweet for a season, it must soon wither, and become offensive. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet and fair, it is lasting; and, I must add, immortal. [ Young ]

How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. [ Thoreau ]

season in Scrabble®

The word season is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters season:

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season in Words With Friends™

The word season is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters season:

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Words within the letters of season

2 letter words in season (7 words)

3 letter words in season (8 words)

4 letter words in season (7 words)

5 letter words in season (5 words)

6 letter words in season (1 word)

season + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving season

Shorter words in season

as seas

sea seas

on son

so son

Longer words containing season

midseason

offseason

overseason overseasoned

overseason overseasoning

overseason overseasons

postseason postseasonal

postseason postseasons

reseason preseason preseasonal

reseason preseason preseasons

reseason reseasoned

reseason reseasoning

reseason reseasons preseasons

seasonable nonseasonable nonseasonableness

seasonable seasonableness nonseasonableness

seasonable seasonableness unseasonableness

seasonable unseasonable unseasonableness

seasonably nonseasonably

seasonably unseasonably

seasonal nonseasonal nonseasonally

seasonal postseasonal

seasonal preseasonal

seasonal seasonality

seasonal seasonally nonseasonally

seasonal unseasonal

seasoned nonseasoned

seasoned overseasoned

seasoned reseasoned

seasoned underseasoned

seasoned unseasoned

seasoner seasoners

seasoning overseasoning

seasoning reseasoning

seasoning seasoninglike

seasoning seasonings

seasonless

seasonly

seasons overseasons

seasons postseasons

seasons reseasons preseasons

unseasonability