season

season
1. noun
a) Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

b) A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season, rainy season, football season.

The third season of Friends aired from 1996 to 1997.

2. verb
a) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
b) 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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