YEARLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yearly mean? 

• YEARLY (noun)
  The noun YEARLY has 1 sense:

1. a reference book that is published regularly once every year

  Familiarity information: YEARLY used as a noun is very rare.

• YEARLY (adjective)
  The adjective YEARLY has 1 sense:

1. occurring or payable every year

  Familiarity information: YEARLY used as an adjective is very rare.

• YEARLY (adverb)
  The adverb YEARLY has 1 sense:

1. without missing a year

  Familiarity information: YEARLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEARLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reference book that is published regularly once every year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

annual; yearbook; yearly

Hypernyms ("yearly" is a kind of...):

book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yearly"):

almanac (an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year)

almanac; farmer's calendar (an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year)

ephemeris (an annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year)

• YEARLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring or payable every year

Synonyms:

annual; yearly

Context example:

annual (or yearly) income

Similar:

periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)

Derivation:

year (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days)

• YEARLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without missing a year

Synonyms:

annually; each year; every year; yearly

Context example:

they travel to China annually

 Context examples 

It is certainly an unpleasant thing, replied Mr. Dashwood, to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A once yearly checking for disease in the absence of symptoms.

(Annual Screening, NCI Thesaurus)

You are happy at Portsmouth, I hope, but this must not be a yearly visit.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The main way to keep from getting the flu is to get a yearly flu vaccine.

(Flu, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

There were a great many holidays at Plumfield, and one of the most delightful was the yearly apple-picking.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The secretion of CaCO[SUB]3[/SUB] by coral forms yearly growth bands; one yearly growth band contains two smaller bands representing winter growth and summer growth.

(Growth band, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

From 2005 to 2008, the Atlantic Forest lost 102,938 hectares—a yearly average of 34,313 hectares.

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)

Arctic sea ice shrinks every year during the spring and summer until it reaches its minimum yearly extent.

(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)

Annual population change and population growth rates were derived from Eurostat yearly population data.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

His inventory includes, not only the chattels and effects of every description belonging to the undersigned, as yearly tenant of this habitation, but also those appertaining to Mr. Thomas Traddles, lodger, a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)