seasonal

«seasonal» in Mova's school dictionary: happening or needed only at a certain season of the year — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (seasonal)

meaning for a pupil

1) Seasonal means happening or needed only at a certain season of the year. tree →

2) Seasonal food is food that is ripe and fresh at that time of year. tree →

3) Seasonal work is a job only for part of the year, like picking fruit or Christmas shop work. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography: seasonal weather, seasonal flooding, seasonal changes in trees and animals. In everyday life: seasonal fruit and vegetables, seasonal sales, seasonal flu. Phrases: «seasonal fruit», «seasonal changes», «seasonal workers».

examples

• Strawberries are seasonal fruit in summer. tree →
• Leaves falling is a seasonal change. tree →
• Many farms hire seasonal workers at harvest time. tree →
• The seasonal flu jab is given each autumn. tree →
• Seasonal rains fill the rivers. tree →
• The shop has a seasonal sale in winter. tree →

note

Adjective of «season». Remember the seasons are opposite in the north and south: in Australia and New Zealand, December is summer, while in the UK and USA it is winter.

In the corpora

• "Happy holidays" (mostly US) is a seasonal greeting that avoids naming Christmas.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «seasonal» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.