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yearly

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12
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11
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6
Pronunciation
/ˈjɪɹli/
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Definition of yearly

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Happening once every year.
    “Christmas is a yearly celebration.”
    “We deep-clean the kitchen lustrally, on a five-yearly basis.”
    “all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Happening once every year.
    “Christmas is a yearly celebration.”
    “We deep-clean the kitchen lustrally, on a five-yearly basis.”
    “all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial.”
  2. (not-comparable)Over the course of one year
    “a yearly income”

adv

  1. (not-comparable)Once a year.
  2. (not-comparable)Every year.
    “With a scanty supply of laws in Hellenic commonwealths or city states what an immense vista for an Aristotle, of that grand, complex, efficient machinery of law, turning out yearly thousands of laws and taboos for the paternalistic control and alleged welfare of the citizen!”

noun

  1. Something that is published once a year.

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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…

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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”).

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