year-around

1. 1.

   operating or continuing throughout the year

   “a year-round resort”

   “a year-round job”

   Synonymsyear-round

Questions about year-around

What does year-around mean?

year-around means "operating or continuing throughout the year".

How many syllables are in year-around?

year-around has 4 syllables: y-ea-r-a-round. The stress falls on "ea".

What is another word for year-around?

Close synonyms include year-round. 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 year-around a common word?

year-around 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.