DRY SEASON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dry season mean? 

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

1. one of the two seasons in tropical climates

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRY SEASON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the two seasons in tropical climates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

season; time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions)

Antonym:

rainy season (one of the two seasons in tropical climates)

 Context examples 

Thus our expedition was at the time of the dry season, when the great river and its tributaries were more or less in a normal condition.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This increases their flow during the dry season, when it is most needed.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)

The study notes that this distant link between land and ocean records could aid in predicting the dry season (winter) rainfall amounts in northeast India and help farmers.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

The study analyzed water vapor data from NASA's Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the Aura satellite, along with other satellite measurements, to show that at the end of the dry season, clouds that build over the southern Amazon are formed from water rising from the forest itself.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)