Definition of Dry season

1. Noun. One of the two seasons in tropical climates.

Generic synonyms: Season, Time Of Year
Antonyms: Rainy Season

Definition of Dry season

1. Noun. Any season in which little rain falls; used especially in the tropics where it alternates with the rainy season ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dry Season

dry pack
dry pericarditis
dry pint
dry pleurisy
dry point
dry powder
dry powder inhaler
dry quart
dry rale
dry reach
dry riser
dry risers
dry rot
dry run
dry runs
dry season
dry seasons
dry socket
dry spells
dry steering
dry sump
dry synovitis
dry tetter
dry ton
dry unit
dry up
dry vermouth
dry vomiting

Literary usage of Dry season

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1900)
"An unusually dry season, with water " the lowest for years," gave excellent opportunity for desirable construction of centers. A comparison of the levels of ..."

2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Warm Temperate Districts without a dry season. Climate of the temperate rain-forest. South Japan. West Chili. New Zealand. Grassland climate of the Falkland ..."

3. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Kate Stephens (1896)
"observing the proper time ; for I sowed it just before the dry season, so that it never came up at all, at least not as it would have done ; of which in its ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"The prevailing winds are almost always from the northwest during the dry season ; from the southwest, southeast, and south, in the wet season. PE ART. XVI. ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"MONTEREY IN THE dry season. — On returning to the coast from the Colorado valley in May, 1861, my health impaired by the tropical heat of the last two ..."

6. La Niäna and Its Impacts: Facts and Speculation by Michael H. Glantz (2002)
"Table 3-6 shows the total rainfall for the rainy season (December—April), and the dry season (May—November) and their percentages with respect to the mean ..."

7. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1906)
"these two dates is so short that the two rainy seasons merge into one, in summer, and there is also but one dry season, in winter. ..."

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