year-rounder

Noun

year-rounder (plural year-rounders)

1. A person who lives in a place throughout the year (as opposed to a seasonal vacationer).
   • Next “season” this order [banning cars] was modified to cover only the summer months—a safe enough proviso, since no year-rounder had descended to interest in motor-driven vehicles.1921, The Literary Digest, Volume 69, 30 April, 1921, “Nantucket’s Losing Fight against the Motor-Car,” p. 48
   • That’s how you could tell the newcomers from the old-timers among the summer people—anyone who called it Spiro’s wasn’t around two summers ago. Of course, the all-year-rounders called the place by its original name, Smith’s Dock.1981, Robert Lipsyte, Summer Rules,, New York: Harper & Row, page 88

   Synonyms:

   local

2. Something suitable for use throughout the year.
   • Herbs have their season, they sing of spring! The onion is an all-year-rounder, but in winter, above all, it is a little of the earth’s springtime preserved in its fleshy bulb.1973, Robert Courtine, The Hundred Glories of French Cooking, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 330
   • The Holy Grail is a suit that earns the privilege of becoming a “year-rounder”—that is, light enough to breathe comfortably in the summer months but with ample girth to get its wearer through a winter in the Great Lakes region.2004, Peter Hyman, The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life, New York: Villard Books, Chapter , p. 237