Other forms: off-seasons
The off-season is the quiet cheap months when few tourists come. Travel in the off-season, off-season rates, the off-season begins.
Prices can halve and half the restaurants close, which is the whole trade-off. In sport the off-season is the gap between competitions, and it is when the real training is done. Note the hyphen, which the noun keeps.
1nounoff-seasonThe quiet months when few tourists come.
“We visited Venice in the off-season, when there were no crowds and hotels were cheap.”
off-season is a period.
Also accepted in games: low season
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₁- — to sow, plant
Latin
satiō — act of sowing, planting
Old French
seson — time of sowing, seeding
Middle English
sesoun — time of the year
English
season
English, today
off-season
Built from
From off- + season. season comes from Middle English sesoun (“time of the year”), from Old French seson (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). a doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA