yearly

[ yeer-lee ]

adjective

1. pertaining to a year or to each year.
2. done, made, happening, appearing, coming, etc., once a year or every year:

   a yearly medical examination.

3. computed or determined by the year.
4. continuing or lasting for a year.

adverb

1. once a year; annually.

noun

, plural year·lies.

1. a publication appearing once a year.

yearly

/ ˈjɪəlɪ /

adjective

1. occurring, done, appearing, etc, once a year or every year; annual
2. lasting or valid for a year; annual

   a yearly subscription

adverb

1. once a year; annually

noun

1. a publication, event, etc, that occurs once a year

Word History and Origins

Origin of yearly¹

before 900; Middle English yeerly, Old English gēarlīc. See year, -ly

Example Sentences

If passed, this bill would also reduce the frequency of audits to detect fraud from every year to once every three years, increase the yearly growth rate of voucher programs, and expand the use of public funds for private education.

From Washington Post

That lets them determine the average yearly temperature of the air near Earth’s surface.

From Science News For Students

Chrome currently has a yearly web performance and frameworks fund for sponsoring work like this.

From Search Engine Land

That is unlike the yearly flu shot, for example, which is given at thousands of neighborhood pharmacies or by regular nurses.

From Fortune

Getting a yearly flu shot is easy because it’s only one shot.

From Vox

Even a year into her now-decade-old relationship, she was getting twice-yearly HIV tests.

From The Daily Beast

Summer got us through our yearly Hell and Purgatory and led us to Heaven in June.

From The Daily Beast

One promised yearly salaries for the artists of about $25,000.

From The Daily Beast

What were those yearly sessions like, when you guys would all get together again?

From The Daily Beast

There are now more than 9,000 worldwide, and the extremely popular yearly CrossFit Games.

From The Daily Beast

It provides for half-yearly accounts, and is the form which has been familiar to shareholders for many years.

From Project Gutenberg

The varnish is of first quality, and his violins are yearly becoming more valuable and of greater importance.

From Project Gutenberg

It turned out that Trevithick had taken and paid for the house at six-monthly periods, instead of yearly periods.

From Project Gutenberg

The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly.

From Project Gutenberg

There are some men295 who with an annual revenue of two millions are yearly still five hundred thousand livres in arrears.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• annual
• annually
• regularly
• yearlong