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yeartime en · ADJ

Etymology

From year + time, or revived from Middle English yer tyme (“yearly commemoration”) (which did not directly survive into Modern English). Compare Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season, time of year”), Swedish årstid (“season”), English yeartide.

Meanings

  1. Seasonal.
    • yeartime variance
  2. Of or pertaining to the timespan of a year or years; yearly.
    • To see how valuable a consumer segment really is, calculating such a yeartime value is obviously not sufficient. 2001, Sonja Sulzmaier, Consumer-oriented business design:

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yeartime en · NOUN

Etymology

From year + time, or revived from Middle English yer tyme (“yearly commemoration”) (which did not directly survive into Modern English). Compare Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season, time of year”), Swedish årstid (“season”), English yeartide.

Meanings

  1. A time of the year; a season.
    • Spring that deceive and plugs that won't spark where we made not fierce summer but October soft light lit by flashes I recognize as aurora borealis, a yeartime of loving out of a fled, raw afternoon. 1985, Maureen Duffy, Collected poems:
    • There is a “Water Falls” which spills and trickles depending upon the yeartime one visits its huge boulders. 2011, Alaya Chadwick, Alaya's Fables: Tales That Transform & Awaken:
    • [...], till another yeartime came to the yards of men, as still today the weather glory-bright always keeps its seasons. 1965, Rowland L. Collins, Beowulf:
    • Asters. My dearest blossoms of the yeartime hold Scant eulogy, save wandering children's meed — All scentless [...] 1910, Sallie Hoffman Perry, Poems:
  2. A year's time; the space of time equivalent to a year.
    • [...] even beetle — these thousands of pads in a yeartime of life — had matted the moss and nettle, [...] 1953, Jack Clement Badcock, The truants:

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