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yearly

adj
/ˈjɪɹli/US/ˈjɪəli/UK

Etymology

From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly (adjectival suffix) or -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarliks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).

  1. inherited from ġēarlīċ
  2. inherited from yeerly

Definitions

  1. Happening once every year.

    • Christmas is a yearly celebration.
    • We deep-clean the kitchen lustrally, on a five-yearly basis.

  2. Over the course of one year

    • a yearly income

  3. Once a year.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Every year.

    2. Something that is published once a year.

The neighborhood

Derived

half-yearly, quarter-yearly, semiyearly, twice-yearly

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for yearly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA