Definitions for silly season
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. silly seasonnoun

   a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. silly seasonnoun

   A period of time, as during a holiday season or a political campaign, in which the behavior of an individual or group tends to become uncharacteristically frivolous, mirthful, or eccentric.

2. silly seasonnoun

   A period, usually during the summertime, when news media tend to place increased emphasis on reporting light-hearted, offbeat, or bizarre stories.

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1. silly season

   "Silly season" is a term typically used in journalism, particularly in the United Kingdom and other English speaking countries, to refer to the period of late summer when there are typically fewer newsworthy events because governmental bodies are in recess and people are on vacation. As such, news outlets often resort to publishing more frivolous or amusing news stories to fill space. The term can also be used more generally to refer to any period of time when people are more prone to silly or frivolous behavior.

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1. Silly season

   The silly season is the period lasting for a few summer months typified by the emergence of frivolous news stories in the media. The term was coined in an 1861 Saturday Review article, and was listed in the second edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and remains in use at the start of the 21st century. The fifteenth edition of Brewer's expands on the second, defining the silly season as "the part of the year when Parliament and the Law Courts are not sitting". In the United States the period is referred to prosaically as the slow news season. In Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, the silly season has come to refer to the Christmas/New Year festive period on account of the higher than usual number of social engagements where the consumption of alcohol is typical.

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How to pronounce silly season?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of silly season in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of silly season in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of silly season in a Sentence

1. Ernesto Solari:

   The chance of its being by Martin Kemp is less than zero. The silly season for Martin Kemp never closes.

2. Marco Rubio:

   It’s interesting -- when it came to coming together to impeach Donald Trump for the second time after he was out of office, they put 100 senators in the same room sitting just inches apart for hours at a time over five or six days, apparently COVID was not an issue then. But now, of course, for something like this we can't have that many people in the room sitting next to each other. So it’s kind of silly season here.

3. South Carolina Graham:

   Come to South Carolina and I'll beat his brains out, i know my state. This is a silly season in politics.

4. Martin Kemp:

   The silly season for Leonardo never closes.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=silly season
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Silly_Season
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=silly season