: occurring, effective, employed, staying, or operating for the full year : not seasonal
a year-round resort
year-round adverb
year-rounder noun

Examples of year-round in a Sentence

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This event ties in with the festival’s year-round education and screening programs. Carole Horst, Variety, 4 Feb. 2025 This AeroGarden on Amazon grows up to 9 of your favorite herbs, veggies, or flowers indoors and year-round without soil. Nora Colomer, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025 Nordstrom Savvy shoppers know that Nordstrom’s beauty department has some excellent deals year-round, but its winter sale section has some especially great skin care, makeup, and fragrance sets up for grabs. Jenifer Calle, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2025 Considered a relatively easy crop to grow that's available year-round, China is the world's top kale producer, but Canada and the U.S. grow a lot of the vegetable as well. Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for year-round 

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of year-round was in 1924

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“Year-round.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/year-round. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

Kids Definition

year-round

adjective
ˈyi(ə)r-ˈrau̇nd,
ˈyiə-ˈrau̇nd
: being in operation for the whole year
a year-round resort
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