: 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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The set comes with six lights that are built to withstand year-round weather conditions, including rain and freezing temperatures. Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 This kind of personalization breaks through barriers—reducing confusion, eliminating guesswork and making benefits feel relevant year-round. Marcy Klipfel, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 As a result, many dairy farms and other year-round agricultural businesses continue to rely heavily on undocumented workers to keep their operations running. Dan Gooding billal Rahman amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 Even if your lawn is made up of warm-season grasses, which hold up well in Southern heat, cool-season types like tall fescue are used to overseed in the fall to keep your lawn healthy-looking year-round. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 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 10 Sep. 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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