growing season
noun
Simple meaning
The part of a year when weather conditions and temperatures are favourable for the growth of plants and trees.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
grohihngseezuhnSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈɡɹoʊɪŋˈsizən
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
The part of a year when weather conditions and temperatures are favourable for the growth of plants and trees.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The part of a year when weather conditions and temperatures are favourable for the growth of plants and trees.
Used this way, growing season is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This sense is used where position and measurement matter — travel, weather and flight — so it reads as factual rather than emotive.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Geography/travel
- Weather/aviation
- Technical/specialist writing
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
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