Definition

1. Noun:
   • Season: A division of the year marked by distinct patterns of weather, daylight, and ecology, such as spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
   • Period / Time: A specific, recurring period characterized by a particular activity, event, or condition, such as an exam period or harvest time.
   • Crop: Refers specifically to the main annual rice crop in agriculture, or the harvest from it.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Season):
  • Việt Nam có hai mùa rõ rệt: mùa mưa và mùa khô. (Vietnam has two distinct seasons: the rainy season and the dry season.)
  • Mùa thu ở Hà Nội rất mát mẻ. (Autumn in Hanoi is very cool.)
• Noun (Period/Time):
  • Mùa thi đang đến gần. (The exam period is approaching.)
  • Đây là mùa du lịch cao điểm. (This is the peak tourist season.)
• Noun (Crop):
  • Năm nay, mùa lúa bội thu. (This year, the rice crop is bountiful.)

Advanced Usage

• "trái mùa": out of season.
  • Dâu tây trái mùa thường đắt hơn. (Out-of-season strawberries are usually more expensive.)
• "hết mùa": no longer in season; past its season.
  • Xoài này đã hết mùa rồi. (These mangoes are no longer in season.)

Variants and Related Words

• Mùa màng (n): crops; harvest (often used in an agricultural context).
  • Mùa màng năm nay bị ảnh hưởng bởi hạn hán. (This year's crops were affected by drought.)
• Mùa vụ (n): crop season; agricultural season.
  • Nông dân đang bận rộn với mùa vụ mới. (Farmers are busy with the new crop season.)

Synonyms

• Season: a time of year characterized by particular conditions.
• Period: a length or portion of time.
• Harvest: the process or period of gathering crops.

Related Idioms

• Được mùa: to have a bumper crop; to be plentiful.
  • Nhờ thời tiết thuận lợi, cà phê được mùa. (Thanks to favorable weather, the coffee crop is bountiful.)
• Mất mùa: to have a crop failure; to have a poor harvest.
  • Lũ lụt khiến nhiều nơi bị mất mùa. (The floods caused crop failures in many areas.)

noun

1. season; time; tide
   • hết mùa
     out of season