year-round

[ yeer-round ]

adjective
  1. continuing, active, operating, etc., throughout the year: a year-round vacation spot.

Origin of year-round

1
First recorded in 1920–25

Words Nearby year-round

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How to use year-round in a sentence

  • Not from this class, however, do your all-the-year-round bathers come.

    Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies
  • And then Santa Barbara, peerless among all-the-year-round resorts.

    The Road of a Thousand Wonders | Passenger Dept. Southern Pacific Co
  • Solar Cookers will then serve year-round, as long as the sun is shining, for these fortunate people.

    The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler | Steven E. Jones
  • Several recreation centers, all-the-year-round playgrounds, have been added since then.

    What eight million women want | Rheta Childe Dorr
  • Practice alone can make perfect, and experience is the more necessary because the cinematograph is an all-the-year-round machine.

    Practical Cinematography and Its Applications | Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

British Dictionary definitions for year-round

year-round

adjective
  1. open, in use, operating, etc, throughout the year

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