yearly
Syllables: year·lyUK/ˈjɪəli/
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British/ˈjɪːlɪj/
yearly adjective: happening once every year.
Adjective
yearly (not comparable)
- Happening once every year.
- Christmas is a yearly celebration.
- We deep-clean the kitchen lustrally, on a five-yearly basis.
- Over the course of one year
- a yearly income
Adverb
yearly (not comparable)
- Once a year.
- 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!1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
Noun
yearly (plural yearlies)
- Something that is published once a year.
yearly meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
yearly in Hindi
- happening once every year
- वार्षिक vārṣik
- once a year
- वार्षिक vārṣik
- something that is published once a year
- वार्षिक vārṣik
yearly in Tamil
- ஆண்டிறுதியான, ஆண்டு தோறும்
yearly in Urdu
- yearly, annual
- سالانہ sālānah
yearly in Bengali
- yearly, annually, perennially
- সালানা salana
- yearly, annual, perennial
- সালানা salana
- yearly; a weekly publication
- সালানা salana
More languagesFewer languages
- yearly in Malayalam
- വാർഷിക vāṟṣika
- yearly in Kannada
- ಪ್ರತಿವರ್ಷ, ವಾರ್ಷಿಕ, ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೊಮ್ಮೆ ಬರುವ
- yearly in Punjabi
- ਸਾਲਾਨਾ sālānā
- yearly in Gujarati
- વાર્ષિક vārṣik
- yearly in Sanskrit
- वार्षिक vārṣika
- yearly in Assamese
- বছেৰেকীয়া boserekia, বছৰি bosori
- yearly in Arabic
- سَنَوِيّ sanawiyy, سَنَوِيًّا sanawiyyan
- yearly in Malay
- tahunan
- yearly in Persian
- سالانه sâlâne
- yearly in Thai
- ทุกปี túk-bpii, รายปี raai-bpii, ประจำปี bprà-jam-bpii, ปีละครั้ง bpii-lá-kráng
Examples of yearly in a sentence
- Me an' my folks are goin' to the yearly village fair! will ya come with us?
- Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
- You will get paid from this investment yearly.
Synonyms of yearly
Forms of yearly
| plural | yearlies |
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Origin of yearly
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”).
Words formed from yearly
Words that rhyme with yearly
Questions about yearly
- What does yearly mean?
- Yearly means happening once every year.
- What is yearly in Hindi?
- Yearly in Hindi is वार्षिक (vārṣik). See Yearly meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is yearly?
- Yearly can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce yearly?
- Yearly is pronounced /ˈjɪəli/ (UK).
Words near yearly in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: yearly (page history and authors); yearly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سالانہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); সালানা (Bengali) (page history and authors); വാർഷിക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); yearly (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વાર્ષિક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); वार्षिक (Sanskrit) (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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