football season
- noun
- /ˈfʊtbɔl ˈsiːzən/
- The first game of the college football season is scheduled for next Saturday.
- football season ticket
- football season ticket holders
You all know Roback best fit, best feel it's football season, the best season, which means it's hoodie season.
- You all know Roback best fit, best feel it's football season, the best season, which means it's hoodie season.
- If it was football season, I'm out scouting, I'd run all over the Bay Area to scout every team and I got to say one thing.
Examples
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But he'll be out for the rest of the football season.
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Fall means football season.
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It's high school football season.
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We had to shoot this in the fall, during football season.
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At some point in every football season, a team has an off day.
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The SEC will have its own television network by the 2014 football season.
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Football season ended five months ago.
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The Eagles have three wins and six losses in the 2012 football season.
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That's right, a new football season begins this week.
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But every week of the college football season is full of mystery and intrigue.
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Synonyms
A time of year with particular weather or events
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the period of the year during which football games are officially scheduled and played' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'football' (the sport) with 'season' (a recurring period marked by events). The noun–noun compositional pattern 'X season' is common in English (and cross-linguistically), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
Football season comes from the idea of football happening during a season, a set 'time of year' when things repeat. Teams play most of their games in that period, so the phrase now means the part of the year when football games are played.