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yeartime

yeartime noun: a time of the year; a season.

Noun

yeartime (plural yeartimes)

  1. A time of the year; a season.
    • Asters. My dearest blossoms of the yeartime hold Scant eulogy, save wandering children's meed — All scentless [...]1910, Sallie Hoffman Perry, Poems
    • [...], till another yeartime came to the yards of men, as still today the weather glory-bright always keeps its seasons.1965, Rowland L. Collins, Beowulf
  2. A year's time; the space of time equivalent to a year.
    • [...] even beetle — these thousands of pads in a yeartime of life — had matted the moss and nettle, [...]1953, Jack Clement Badcock, The truants

Adjective

yeartime (comparative more yeartime, superlative most yeartime)

  1. Seasonal.
    • yeartime variance
  2. Of or pertaining to the timespan of a year or years; yearly.
    • To see how valuable a consumer segment really is, calculating such a yeartime value is obviously not sufficient.2001, Sonja Sulzmaier, Consumer-oriented business design

Examples of yeartime in a sentence

  • Spring that deceive and plugs that won't spark where we made not fierce summer but October soft light lit by flashes I recognize as aurora borealis, a yeartime of loving out of a fled, raw afternoon.1985, Maureen Duffy, Collected poems:
  • There is a “Water Falls” which spills and trickles depending upon the yeartime one visits its huge boulders.2011, Alaya Chadwick, Alaya's Fables: Tales That Transform & Awaken:

Forms of yeartime

Noun
pluralyeartimes
Adjective
comparativemore yeartime
superlativemost yeartime

Origin of yeartime

From year + time, or revived from Middle English yer tyme (“yearly commemoration”) (which did not directly survive into Modern English). Compare Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season, time of year”), Swedish årstid (“season”), English yeartide.

Questions about yeartime

What does yeartime mean?
Yeartime means a time of the year; a season.
How do you use yeartime in a sentence?
Spring that deceive and plugs that won't spark where we made not fierce summer but October soft light lit by flashes I recognize as aurora borealis, a yeartime of loving out of a fled, raw afternoon.
What part of speech is yeartime?
Yeartime can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of yeartime?
The plural of yeartime is yeartimes.

Words near yeartime in the dictionary

  1. yearthousand
  2. yearthousands
  3. yearths
  4. yeartide
  5. yeartides
  6. yeartime
  7. yeartimes
  8. yearward
  9. yearwise
  10. Yearwood
  11. Yearwoods

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