perennially

[ puh-ren-ee-uh-lee ]

adverb
  1. perpetually, repeatedly, or continually; throughout the year or years:For our main dish I suggest salmon, which is perennially popular.Many rural dwellers are not located along perennially flowing river channels.

  2. year after year, without needing to be replanted:Chives are a member of the onion (allium) family and grow perennially.

Origin of perennially

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How to use perennially in a sentence

  • Besides, the mortifying experience at the Paris Exposition has dampened even my perennially youthful enthusiasm.

    In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. Chambers
  • It is perennially delightful; in France it has been dramatized, and is still played.

  • But to go back to that perennially interesting question, Concerning Servants; put down $200 under Service.

    Living on a Little | Caroline French Benton
  • But a part of the mistrust lies in the fact that it is not vision but the perennially half-doubted hearing that is in issue.

    Criminal Psychology | Hans Gross
  • But—to hark back to the butcher and apothecary—verses are perennially made upon Pg 149Mr.

    Adventures in Criticism | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch