Yearly: Definition and part of speech

Yearly

  1. adv. Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.
  2. a. Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.
  3. a. Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.
  4. a. Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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