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==English==
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===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|sēʹzən}}; {{IPA|en|/ˈsiː.zən/|a=RP,GA}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-season.ogg|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|en-au-season.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|iːzən|s=2}}
* {{hyph|en|sea|son}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*seh₁-|id=sow}}
From {{inh|en|enm|sesoun|sesoun, seson|time of the year}}, from {{der|en|fro|seson|seson, saison|time of sowing, seeding}}, from {{der|en|la|satiō||act of sowing, planting}} from {{m|la|satum}}, past participle of {{m|la|serō||to sow, plant}} from {{der|en|ine-pro|*seh₁-||to sow, plant}}. Akin to {{cog|ang|sāwan||to sow}}, {{m|ang|sǣd||seed}}. {{doublet|en|saison}}. Displaced native {{cog|enm|sele||season}} (from {{cog|ang|sǣl||season, time, occasion}}), {{cog|enm|tide||season, time of year}} (from {{cog|ang|tīd||time, period, yeartide, season}}).

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{senseid|en|Q24384}} Each of the four divisions of a [[year]]: [[spring]], [[summer]], [[autumn]] ([[fall]]) and [[winter]]
#: {{syn|en|yeartide|yeartime}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1705|author=w:Joseph Addison|title=Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703
|passage=we saw, in six days' traveling, the several '''seasons''' of the year in their beauty and perfection}}
#* {{quote-song |en |lyricist={{w|Jaques Brel}} (original version); w:Rod McKuen |title=Seasons in the Sun |artist=w:Terry Jacks |year=1973 |passage=We had joy, we had fun, we had '''seasons''' in the sun, / But the wine and the song, / like the '''seasons''', have all gone.}}
# A part of a year when something particular happens.
#: {{ux|en|mating '''season'''}}
#: {{ux|en|the rainy '''season'''}}
#: {{ux|en|the football '''season'''}}
#* {{RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients|chapter=1|passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague '''season'''.}}
# A period of the year in which a [[place]] is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
#* {{RQ:Doyle Land of Mist|passage=He seldom was seen in the office himself, but occasionally a paragraph in the paper recorded that his yacht had touched at Mentone and that he had been seen at the Monte Carlo tables, or that he was expected in Leicestershire for the '''season'''.}}
# {{lb|en|cricket}} The [[period]] over which a [[series]] of [[Test match]]es are played.
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} That which gives [[relish]]; seasoning.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing|4|1|text=O! she is fallen<br>Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea<br>Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,<br>And salt too little which may '''season''' give<br>To her foul-tainted flesh.}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth|III|4|text=You lack the '''season''' of all natures, sleep.}}
# {{senseid|en|Q3464665}} {{lb|en|North America|Australia|broadcasting}} 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.
#: {{syn|en|[[series]]<qq:British English>}}
#: {{ux|en|The third '''season''' of ''Friends'' aired from 1996 to 1997.}}
#* {{quote-av|en|date=February 11, 1998|episode=w:Tom's Rhinoplasty|title=w:South Park|season=1|number=11|passage=Or - is she Erin Gray in the second '''season''' of Buck Rogers beautiful?}}
# {{lb|en|archaic}} An extended, undefined period of time.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1656|author=[[w:John Owen (theologian)|John Owen]]|title=The Mortification of Sin
|passage=So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a '''season''', being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1902|author=John Buchan|title=The Outgoing of the Tide
|passage=A '''season''' of great doubt fell upon her soul.}}
# {{lb|en|video games}} The full set of [[downloadable]] [[content]] for a game, which can be purchased with a [[season pass]].
# {{lb|en|video games}} A fixed period of time in a [[massively multiplayer online game]] in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.

=====Usage notes=====
In British English, a year-long group of episodes of a television or radio show is called a {{m|en|series|id=Q3464665}}, whereas in North American English the word {{m|en|series}} is a synonym of {{m|en|program}} or {{m|en|show}}.

=====Derived terms=====
{{der4|en
|tis the season|all-season tire|Christmas season|close season|closed season|cuffing season|dry season|festive season|gooseberry season|harvest season|holiday season|in season and out of season|learning season|mid season|mid season form|mid-season|mud season|off-season|peak season|post-season|rainy season|season creep|season finale|season parking|shoulder season|swooping season|virtual season|wet season
|end-of-season
|growing season|social season
|high season
|in season
|lambing season|earnings season|in good season|spooky season|stick season
|low season
|mating season
|midseason
|mid-season form
|monsoon season
|open season
|out of season
|preseason
|rutting season
|seasonable
|seasonal
|seasonally
|season ticket
|silly season
|unseasonally
|unseasonable
|unseasonably
}}

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|ja|シーズン|tr=shīzun|bor=1}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|quarter of a year}}
* Afrikaans: {{t+|af|seisoen}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|stinë|f}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|فَصْل|m}}, {{t|ar|مَوْسِم|m}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{t|arz|فصل|m|tr=faṣl}}, {{t|arz|موسم|m|tr=mūsem}}
*: Hijazi Arabic: {{t|acw|فَصِل|m|tr=faṣil}}, {{t|acw|مَوْسِم|m|tr=mawsim}}
*: Moroccan Arabic: {{t|ary|فصل|tr=faṣl}}
* Aragonese: {{t-needed|an}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|եղանակ}}
* Assamese: {{t|as|ঋতু}}
* Asturian: {{t+|ast|estación|f}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|mövsüm}}, {{t+|az|fəsil}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|миҙгел}}
* Basque: {{t+|eu|urtaro}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|пара́ го́да|f}}, {{t|be|сезо́н|m}}, {{t|be|сэзо́н|m}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|ঋতু}}
* Breton: {{t|br|koulz-amzer|m}}
* Brunei Malay: {{t|kxd|musim}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|сезо́н|m}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|ရာသီ}}, {{t+|my|ဥတု}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|temps de l'any|f}}, {{t+|ca|saó|f}}, {{t+|ca|estació|f}}
* Cherokee: {{t-needed|chr}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|季節}}, {{t|yue|季|tr=gwai3}}
*: Hokkien: {{t+|nan-hbl|季節|tr=kùi-choeh, kùi-cheh, kùi-chiat}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|季|tr=jì}}, {{t+|cmn|季節}}
* Cimbrian: {{t|cim|stadjónge}}
* Cornish: {{t|kw|seson|m}}, {{t|kw|sesons|m-p}}, {{t|kw|sesonyow|m-p}}
* Corsican: {{t|co|staghjone}}
* Cree: {{t|cr|kâ-isiwêpahki}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|roční období|n}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|årstid|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|seizoen|n}}, {{t+|nl|jaargetijde|f}}
* Elfdalian: {{t|ovd|årstið|f}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|sezono}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|aastaaeg}}
* Faroese: {{t|fo|árstíð|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vuodenaika}}
* French: {{t+|fr|saison|f}}
* Friulian: {{t|fur|stagjon}}, {{t|fur|seson|f}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|estación|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|წელიწადის დრო}}, {{t|ka|სეზონი}}
* German: {{t+|de|Jahreszeit|f}}
*: Central Franconian: {{t-check|gmw-cfr|Joohreszitt}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|εποχή|f}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|καιρός|m}}
* Greenlandic: {{t|kl|ukiup ilaa}}, {{t|kl|ukiup kaajallakkiartornerata ilaa}}
* Gujarati: {{t-needed|gu}}
* Haitian Creole: {{t|ht|sezon}}
* Hawaiian: {{t|haw|kau}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|עוֹנָה|tr=oná|f}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|मौसम|m}}, {{t+|hi|ऋतु|f}}, {{t|hi|फ़सल|f}}, {{t+|hi|फस्ल|f}}, {{t+|hi|फसल|f}}, {{t+|hi|रित|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|évszak}}
* Hunsrik: {{t|hrx|Johreszeid|f}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|árstíð|f}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|sezono}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|musim}}
* Interlingua: {{t|ia|station del anno}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|séasúr|m}}, {{t|ga|ráithe|f}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|stagione|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|季節|tr=きせつ, kisetsu}}, {{t|ja|折節|tr=おりふし, orifushi}}
* Javanese: {{t|jv|mangsa}}
* Kannada: {{t-needed|kn}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|жыл мезгілдері}}, {{t+|kk|маусым}}, {{t|kk|мерзім}}
* Khmer: {{t|km|រដូវ}}, {{t+|km|ឧតុ}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|계절(季節)}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|وەرز}}
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t+|kmr|werz}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|мезгил}}, {{t+|ky|сезон}}
* Lao: {{t|lo|ລະດູ}}, {{t|lo|ລະດູການ}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|hora}}, {{t|la|tempestas|f}}, {{t|la|tempus anni|n}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|gadalaiks|m}}, {{t|lv|sezona|f}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|metų laikas|m}}
* Luxembourgish: {{t+|lb|Joreszäit|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|го́дишно вре́ме|n}}, {{t|mk|сезо́на|f}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|musim}}
* Malayalam: {{t+|ml|ഋതു}}
* Maltese: {{t|mt|staġun|m}}
* Manchu: {{t|mnc|ᡶᠣᡵᡤᠣᠨ}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kaupeka}}, {{t|mi|houanga}}
* Marathi: {{t+|mr|ऋतू}}
* Mòcheno: {{t|mhn|jorzait|f}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t+|mn|улирал}}
*: Mongolian: {{t|mn|ᠤᠯᠠᠷᠢᠯ}}
* Narom: {{t|nrm|saîson}}
* Navajo: {{t|nv|nináháhááh}}
* Nepali: {{t+|ne|ऋतु}}
* Northern Sami: {{t|se|jahkodat}}, {{t|se|jagiáigi}}
* Northern Sotho: {{t|nso|sehla}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|årstid|m|f}}, {{t|nb|sesong|m}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|sason|f}}
* Odia: {{t|or|ଋତୁ}}
* Old Norse: {{t|non|mál|n}}
* Pashto: {{t|ps|موسم|m|tr=mosem}}, {{t+|ps|فصل|m|tr=fasᶕl}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|مُوسِم|tr=mowsem}}, {{t+|fa|فَصل|tr=fasl}}, {{t+|fa|هنگام|tr=hangām}}
* Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|Joarestiet|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|pora roku|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|estação|f}}, {{t+|pt|sazão|f}}
* Quechua: {{t|qu|mit'a}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|anotimp|n}}
* Romansch: {{t|rm|stagiun|f}}, {{t|rm|stagiùn|f}}, {{t|rm|staschung|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|вре́мя го́да|n}}, {{t+|ru|сезо́н|m}}
* Samogitian: {{t|sgs|metu laikā}}
* Scots: {{t|sco|saison}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|aimsir|f}}, {{t|gd|ràith|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|годишње доба|n}}, {{t|sh|до̑ба|n}}, {{t|sh|сезо́на|f}}
*: Roman: {{t|sh|godišnje doba|n}}, {{t+|sh|dȏba|n}}, {{t+|sh|sezóna|f}}
* Shona: {{t|sn|mwaka yepaNyika}}
* Sicilian: {{t+|scn|staciuni|f}}, {{t+|scn|staggiuni}}, {{t+|scn|stagiuni}}, {{t|scn|staciuna}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|ročné obdobie|n}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|letni čas|m}}
* Somali: {{t|so|afarta xilli}}
* Sorbian:
*: Upper Sorbian: {{t|hsb|počas|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|estación|f}}
* Sundanese: {{t|su|usum}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|msimu}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|årstid|c}}
* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|pana-panahon}}
* Tajik: {{t+|tg|мавсим}}, {{t+|tg|фасл}}
* Tamil: {{t|ta|பருவ காலம்}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|రుతువు}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ฤดู}}, {{t+|th|หน้า}}
* Tswana: {{t|tn|setlha}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|mevsim}}, {{t+|tr|sezon}}
* Turkmen: {{t|tk|pasyl}}, {{t|tk|möwsüm}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|пора́ ро́ку|f}}, {{t|uk|сезо́н|m}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|مَوسَم|tr=mausam|m}}, {{t|ur|فَصْل|m|tr=fasl}}, {{t|ur|رِت|f|tr=rit}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|پەسىل}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|mavsum}}, {{t+|uz|fasl}}
* Venetan: {{t+|vec|stajon}}, {{t|vec|staxon}}, {{t|vec|stagion}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|mùa}}
* Volapük: {{t+|vo|säsun}}
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|såjhon}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|tymor|m}}
* West Frisian: {{t+|fy|jiertiid|c}}
* Winnebago: {{t|win|mąąkirupinįra}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|תּקופֿה|tr=tkufe|f}}, {{t|yi|סעזאָן|m}}, {{t|yi|צײַט פֿון יאָר}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|part of year with something special}}
* Afrikaans: {{t+|af|seisoen}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|مَوْسِم|m}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{t|arz|موسم|m|tr=mūsem}}, {{t|arz|سيزون|m|tr=sizun}}
*: Hijazi Arabic: {{t|acw|مَوْسِم|m|tr=mawsim}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|սեզոն}}
* Asturian: {{t|ast|campaña|f}}, {{t|ast|temporada|f}}, {{t+|ast|dómina|f}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|mövsüm}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|миҙгел}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|aldi}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|сезо́н|m}}, {{t|be|сэзо́н|m}}
* Brunei Malay: {{t|kxd|musim}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|сезо́н|m}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|saó|f}}, {{t+|ca|època|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|時節}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|období|n}}, {{t+|cs|sezóna|f}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|sæson}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|seizoen|n}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|hooaeg}}
* Faroese: {{t+|fo|tíð|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kausi}}, {{t+|fi|sesonki}} {{qualifier|shopping}}
* French: {{t+|fr|saison|f}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|tempada|f}}, {{t|gl|temporada|f}}, {{t+|gl|anada|f}}, {{t+|gl|tempo|m}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|სეზონი}}, {{t|ka|პერიოდი}}
* German: {{t+|de|Saison|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|σεζόν|f}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|मौसम|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|idény}}, {{t+|hu|szezon}}, {{t+|hu|időszak}}, {{q|rarely}} {{t+|hu|évad}}
* Icelandic: {{t|is|vertíð|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|musim}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|stagione|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|旬|tr=しゅん, shun}}, {{t+|ja|時期|tr=じき, jiki}}, {{t|ja|シーズン|tr=shīzun}}, {{t|ja|出盛り|tr=でさかり, desakari, でざかり, dezakari}}
* Javanese: {{t|jv|mangsa}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|ឧតុ}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|철}}
* Lao: {{t|lo|ລະດູການ}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|tempus|n}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|sezona|f}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|metas|m}}, {{t+|lt|sezonas|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|сезо́на|f}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|musim}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|sesong|m}}, {{t|nb|løpetid|m|f}} {{qualifier|mating season}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|sezon|m-in}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|temporada|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|sezon|n}}
* Romansch: {{t|rm|stagiun|f}}, {{t|rm|stagiùn|f}}, {{t|rm|staschung|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|сезо́н|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|сезо́на|f}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|sezóna|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|obdobie|n}}, {{t|sk|sezóna|f}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|sezona|f}}, {{t|sl|obdobje|n}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|temporada|f}}, {{t+|es|período|m}}, {{t+|es|época|f}} (del año)
* Sundanese: {{t|su|usum}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|msimu}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|säsong|c}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ฤดู}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|mevsim}}, {{t+|tr|sezon}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|сезо́н|m}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|mùa}}
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|såjhon|f}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|סעזאָן|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|a group of episodes}}
* Afrikaans: {{t+|af|seisoen}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|مَوْسِم|m}}, {{t+|ar|جُزْء|m}}
*: Hijazi Arabic: {{t|acw|مَوْسِم|m|tr=mawsim}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|սեզոն}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|сезо́н|m}}, {{t|be|сэзо́н|m}}
* Brunei Malay: {{t|kxd|musim}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|сезо́н|m}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|saó|f}}, {{t+|ca|temporada|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|期|tr=qī}}, {{t|cmn|[[上映]][[期]]|tr=shàngyìng jì}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|sezóna|f}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|sæson|c}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|sezono}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|hooaeg}}
* Faroese: {{t|fo|árgangur|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kausi}}, {{t|fi|tuotantokausi}}
* French: {{t+|fr|saison|f}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|tempada|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|სეზონი}}
* German: {{t+|de|Staffel|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|κύκλος|m}}, {{t+|el|σεζόν|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|évad}}
* Icelandic: {{t|is|þáttaröð|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t|id|musim tayang}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|stagione|f}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|シーズン|tr=shīzun}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|시즌}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|сезо́на|f}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|musim}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|sesong|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|sesong|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|sezon|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|temporada|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|sezon|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|сезо́н|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|сезо́на|f}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|sezóna|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|sezóna|f}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|sezona|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|temporada|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|säsong|c}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|sezon}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|сезо́н|m}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|mùa}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|cyfres}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|סעזאָן|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(obsolete) that which gives relish}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|припра́ва|f}}, {{t+|ru|спе́ция|f}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|çeşni}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(obsolete) an extended, undefined period of time}}
* French: {{t+|fr|temps|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

=====See also=====
{{table:seasons/en}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[habituate]], [[accustom]], or [[inure]] (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
#: {{ux|en|to '''season''' oneself to a climate}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|by extension}} To [[prepare]] by [[dry]]ing or [[harden]]ing, or [[removal]] of natural [[juice]]s.
#: {{ux|en|The timber needs to be '''seasoned'''.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To become [[mature]]; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To become [[dry]] and [[hard]], by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
#: {{ux|en|The wood has '''seasoned''' in the sun.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[mingle]]: to moderate, temper, or qualify by [[admixture]].
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[impregnate]] (literally or figuratively).
#* {{quote-book|en|1589|w:Richard Hakluyt|''The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation''|https://archive.org/details/cihm_35668/page/n116/mode/1up|93|When the male hath once '''ſeaſoned''' the female, he neuer after toucheth her.|norm=When the male hath once '''seasoned''' the female, he never after toucheth her.|volume_plain=part 1|chapter=22|location=w:London}}
#* {{quote-book|en|1601|w:Philemon Holland|''The Historie of the World''||224|For this prince{{…}}would not ſuffer the Buls to come unto the Kine and '''ſeaſon''' them, before they were both foure yeares old.|volume_plain=book 8|url=https://books.google.ro/books?redir_esc=y&hl=ro&id=HiQ6KlZSt8MC&q=Pyrrhus#v=snippet&q=%22before%20they%20were%20both%22|section=chapter 45|location=w:London|original=w:[[Natural History (Pliny)|''Naturalis Historia'']]|by=w:Pliny the Elder}}
#* {{quote-book|en|1745||''A Collection of Voyages and Travels''||150|If you had '''seasoned''' me with that philosophy, which formeth the mind to ratiocination, and insensibly accustoms it to be satisfied with nothing but solid reasons, if you had given me those excellent precepts and doctrines, which raise the foul above the assaults of fortune, and reduce her to an unshakeable and always equal temper, and permit her not to be lifted up b prosperity, nor debased by adversity, if you had taken care to give me the knowledge of what we are, and what are the first principles of things, and had assisted me in forming in my mind a fit idea of the greatness of the universe, and of the admirable order and motion of the parts thereof, if, I say, you had instilled into me this kind of philosophy, I should think myself incomparably more obliged to you than ''Alexander'' was to his ''Aristotle''}}
#* {{quote-book|en|1763|Edmund Burton|''Antient Characters deduced from Classical Remains''||82|In minds, not '''seasoned''' and impregnated with the due apprehension of those ends, that conduce to ease and security, there is usually a tempestuous discontent, that raises unruly ferments; an unkind gale, by whose resistless powers, the port is overreached.}}

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|make fit for any use by time or habit}} {{l|en|wont}}; see also [[Thesaurus:accustom]]
* {{sense|prepare by drying}} {{l|en|desiccate}}, {{l|en|dehydrate}}, {{l|en|exiccate}}, {{l|en|fordry}}
* {{sense|become mature}} {{l|en|age}}, {{l|en|grow up}}, {{l|en|mature}}; see also [[Thesaurus:to age]]
* {{sense|become dry and hard}} {{l|en|desiccate}}, {{l|en|dry out}}, {{l|en|dry up}}, {{l|en|fordry}}, {{l|en|shrivel up}}
* {{sense|mingle}} {{l|en|admix}}, {{l|en|alloy}}, {{l|en|intermingle}}; see also [[Thesaurus:mix]]
* {{sense|impregnate}} {{l|en|inseminate}}, {{l|en|fertilize}}, {{l|en|seed}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to make fit for any use by time or habit}}
* Dutch: {{t|nl|zich [[aanpassen]]}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|totuttaa}}
* German: {{t+|de|anpassen}}, {{t+|de|abhärten}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|hozzászoktat}}, {{t+|hu|akklimatizál}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|addestrare}}, {{t+|it|allenare}}, {{t+|it|acclimatare}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|habituar}}, {{t+|es|acostumbrar}}, {{t+|es|aclimatar}}
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{{trans-top|to prepare by drying or hardening}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|изсушавам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kuivattaa}}
* German: {{t+|de|trocknen}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|kiszárít}}, {{t+|hu|szárít}}, {{t+|hu|kiérlel}}, {{t+|hu|érlel}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|stagionare}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|desecar}}, {{t+|es|curar}}
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{{trans-top|to become mature}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|rijpen}}, {{t|nl|rijp worden}}
* French: {{t+|fr|aguerrir}}
* German: {{t+|de|altern}}, {{t|de|erwachsen werden}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|熟れる|tr=ureru}}
* Norwegian: {{t|no|modnes}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|madurar}}
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{{trans-top|to become dry and hard}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|изсъхвам}}
* German: {{t+|de|austrocknen}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|kiszárad}}, {{t+|hu|szárad}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|secarse}}
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===Etymology 2===
From {{bor|en|fr|assaisonner}}.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[flavour]] [[food]] with [[spice]]s, [[herb]]s or [[salt]].

=====Related terms=====
{{col-auto|en
|seasoning
|unseason}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to flavour food}}
* Breton: {{t|br|temzañ}}, {{t|br|sasuniñ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|слагам подправки}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|condimentar}}, {{t+|ca|amanir}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|[[给]][[调味]]}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|okořenit}}, {{t|cs|ochutit|pf}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|kruiden}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|spicigi}}, {{t|eo|kondimenti}}, {{t|eo|spici}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|maitsestama}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|maustaa}}, {{t+|fi|höystää}}
* French: {{t+|fr|épicer}}, {{t+|fr|assaisonner}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|adobar}}
* German: {{t+|de|würzen}}, {{t+|de|einlegen}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ἀρτύω}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|תיבל|tr=tee-BEL}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|fűszerez}}, {{t+|hu|ízesít}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|bumbu|alt=membumbui}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|leasaigh}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|condire}}, {{t+|it|insaporire}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|味付け|alt=味付けする|tr=あじつけする, ajitsukesuru}}
* Latin: {{t|la|condiō}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|skaninti}}, {{t|lt|gardinti}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|krydre}}, {{t|no|smaksette}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|wyrtian}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|przyprawić}}, {{t+|pl|przyprawiać}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|condimentar}}, {{t+|pt|temperar}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|asezona}}, {{t+|ro|condimenta}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|začiniti|pf}}, {{t|sl|začinjati|impf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|aliñar}}, {{t+|es|condimentar}}, {{t+|es|sazonar}}, {{t|es|especiar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|krydda}}
* Tagalog: {{t|tl|lig-ingin}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|çeşnilemek}}, {{t+|tr|çeşni katmak}}, {{t|tr|baharat katmak}}, {{t|tr|çeşnilendirmek}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|nêm}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|צוריכטן}}
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===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aenoss|Easons|naoses|ossean}}

{{C|en|Time}}

==Middle English==

===Noun===
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# {{alternative form of|enm|sesoun}}
#* {{RQ:Malory Le Morte Darthur|version=WM|folio=449|passage=''IN Maẏ whan eúý harte floryſhyth́ ⁊ burgruyth́'' for as the '''ſeaſon''' ys luſty to be holde and comfortable ſo man and woman reioyſyth and gladith of ſom[er] cõmynge w{{sup|t}} his freyſhe floures|translation=''IN May, when every heart flourisheth and burgeneth''; for as the '''season''' is lusty to behold, and comfortable, so man and woman rejoice and be glad of summer coming with his fresh flowers.}}