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yearlong

yearlong adjective: lasting one year; of a timespan of one year.

Adjective

yearlong (not comparable)

  1. Lasting one year; of a timespan of one year.
    • Both are congruent with a yearlong periodicity, which is apparently neutralized in the main settlement.1976, Jean-Paul Dumont, Under the rainbow: nature and supernature among the Panare Indians, page 81
    • By saving your entire file of daily and weekly lists, you will create your yearlong list.2003, Richard A. Simon with James F. Newman, Making time to lead: how principals can stay on top of it all, page 3
  2. Which lasts throughout every year; which is not seasonal
    • Yearlong manning is needed, although at a somewhat reduced level from the peak periods in the fall.1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
    • During interviews, teachers and/or principals in three of the four most effective schools cited a yearlong staff development effort.2002, Barbara Taylor, P. David Pearson, Teaching reading: effective schools, accomplished teachers, page 37

Adverb

yearlong (not comparable)

  1. Per year.
    • The estimate of the number of sheep and cattle now using this range is equivalent to 250000 cattle units yearlong1939, Hugh Hammond Bennett, Soil conservation, page 807
    • The carrying capacity of this area is 46 cattle yearlong.1946, U.S. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, Administration and use of public lands: Parts 5-9
  2. Throughout every year; not seasonally
    • Over much of the Great Plains, water was not available yearlong for units of land as small as the customary ownership units1979, Marion Clawson, The western range livestock industry, page 73
    • Black bear and mountain goats occur in the area yearlong.1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, Additions to the national wilderness preservation system, volume 2...

yearlong meaning in Tamil and Urdu

yearlong in Tamil

ஆண்டு முழுதும் நீடித்திருக்கிற, ஆண்டு முழுவதுமான

yearlong in Urdu

سال بھر کا, یک سالہ

Forms of yearlong

alternative formyear-long

Origin of yearlong

From year + -long.

Words formed from yearlong

  • yearlong rate

Questions about yearlong

What does yearlong mean?
Yearlong means lasting one year; of a timespan of one year.
What is yearlong in Tamil?
Yearlong in Tamil is ஆண்டு முழுதும் நீடித்திருக்கிற, ஆண்டு முழுவதுமான. See Yearlong meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is yearlong?
Yearlong can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near yearlong in the dictionary

  1. yearhundred
  2. yearhundreds
  3. yearlies
  4. yearling
  5. yearlings
  6. yearlong
  7. yearly
  8. yearman
  9. yearmen
  10. yearn
  11. yearne

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yearlong (page history and authors); yearlong (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yearlong (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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