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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/#m1)

2) Seasonal food is food that is ripe and fresh at that time of year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/#m2)

3) Seasonal work is a job only for part of the year, like picking fruit or Christmas shop work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/#x1)
- Leaves falling is a seasonal change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/#x2)
- Many farms hire seasonal workers at harvest time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/#x3)
- The seasonal flu jab is given each autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/#x4)
- Seasonal rains fill the rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/#x5)
- The shop has a seasonal sale in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seasonal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasonal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.