4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

yearly

adjective: occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income" [syn: {annual}]

adverb: without missing a year; "they travel to China annually" [syn: {annually}, {every year}, {each year}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Yearly \Year"ly\, adjective [AS. ge['a]rlic.]

1. Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.

2. Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.

3. Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth. --Shak.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Yearly \Year"ly\, adverb [AS. ge['a]rlice.] Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.

Yearly will I do this rite. --Shak.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "yearly": annual, annually, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, decennial, diurnal, fortnightly, hebdomadal, hourly, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, per annum, perennial, perennially, quarterly, quotidian, regular, regularly, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, tertian, triennial, weekly, year after year

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