every year

1. 1.

   without missing a year

   “they travel to China annually”

   Synonymsannuallyyearlyeach year

Questions about every year

What does every year mean?

every year means "without missing a year".

What is another word for every year?

Close synonyms include annually, yearly, each year. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is every year a common word?

every year is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.