season

1. season (noun) — sense 1

Definition: Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season, depending on the climate.

Example: we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection

2. season (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A period of the year when something particular happens.

Example: mating season

3. season (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.

Example: 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.

4. season (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.

Example: to season oneself to a climate

5. season (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.

Example: The timber needs to be seasoned.

6. season (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.