hockey season
2
1.8
- noun
- /ˈhɑːki ˈsiːzən/
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temporada de hockey
- As the hockey season heats up, rivalries between teams become more intense.
Examples
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Many families plan their vacations around hockey season to attend the games.
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The college hockey season is right around the corner, and it probably can't come soon enough for the coaches, especially since their players ...
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Hockey season ended months ago.
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Tablet owners also use their devices to check sports scores, something I do only during hockey season.
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The RIT hockey season has been a struggle, to say the least.
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As the hockey season progressed and more players were injured or traded to other teams, the ritual evolved.
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Consider having the number of a player on it, the name, or maybe even just a team symbol that will let everyone know who you are rooting for this hockey season.
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Concrete plans for a second rink, however, didn't get underway until after the hockey season ended in March of this year, Nelson said.
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The new Hong Kong Hockey Association Premier Division field hockey season proper got underway last weekend with two women's matches and four men's matches.
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The city comes alive during hockey season as fans gather to support their teams.
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the period when hockey games are officially played' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'hockey' (the sport) with 'season' (a marked period). This sport + season noun construction is common cross-linguistically and follows a regular compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Hockey season comes from the idea of a season as a regular 'time of year' and hockey as the sport. Because hockey was often played only in colder months when ice was good, people talked about the 'hockey season' as the months set aside for games. That's why today hockey season means the yearly period when official hockey games are played.