HUNTING SEASON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hunting season mean? 

• HUNTING SEASON (noun)
  The noun HUNTING SEASON has 1 sense:

1. the season during which it is legal to kill a particular species

  Familiarity information: HUNTING SEASON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNTING SEASON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The season during which it is legal to kill a particular species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("hunting season" is a kind of...):

season (a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field)

 Context examples 

He says that hunting season for the Norse would have been short, as seas were choked with ice for much of the year.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

Both men were wounded, and he was thrashing them both for having disobeyed his orders and crippled themselves in advance of the hunting season.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Johnson and Leach were bullied and beaten as much as ever, and they looked for their lives to end with the end of the hunting season; while the rest of the crew lived the lives of dogs and were worked like dogs by their pitiless master.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)