yearly

Everyday

1. Happening once every year: a yearly visit. tree →
2. For one whole year: a yearly cost. tree →
3. (adverb) Once a year or every year. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life: yearly check-ups, a yearly school trip, yearly subscriptions. In maths: yearly amounts are often turned into monthly or weekly amounts, or the other way round. Similar: annual (more formal).

Examples

• We have a yearly trip to the seaside. tree →
• The dentist sees me twice a year, not yearly. tree →
• The club costs £24 yearly, which is £2 a month. tree →
• The school holds a yearly sports day. tree →
• The yearly rainfall here is very high. tree →
• Birthdays come round yearly. tree →
• Then the ship’s crew returned home, and the same thing happened yearly until many years had passed. tree →

Note

Same as «annual» (more formal). Not the same as «every other year». Maths: 1 year = 12 months = 52 weeks (and a bit) = 365 days (366 in a leap year). Yearly ÷ 12 = monthly.

In Jewish tradition

It often refers to a set event that happens once every year, such as a festival, a pilgrimage, or a sacrifice.

Interpretation. Yearly rites such as Elkanah's trip to Shiloh and the days of Purim in Esther are remembered each year. Tradition holds that repeating them keeps the memory of events alive.

Examples

• that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. (Prophets JDG.11.40, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. (Prophets 1SA.1.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, (Writings EST.9.21, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Same as «annual» (more formal). Not the same as «every other year». Maths: 1 year = 12 months = 52 weeks (and a bit) = 365 days (366 in a leap year). Yearly ÷ 12 = monthly.