Yeartime

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A time of the year; a season.

    "Asters. My dearest blossoms of the yeartime hold Scant eulogy, save wandering children's meed — All scentless [...]"

  2. 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, [...]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Seasonal.

    "yeartime variance"

  2. 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."

Synonyms

All synonyms
season

Example

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"Asters. My dearest blossoms of the yeartime hold Scant eulogy, save wandering children's meed — All scentless [...]"

Etymology

From year + time. Compare Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season, time of year”), Swedish årstid (“season”), English yeartide.

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