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# yearly

«yearly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Happening once every year: a yearly visit** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (yearly); adverb (yearly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Happening once every year: a yearly visit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#m1)

2) For one whole year: a yearly cost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#m2)

3) (adverb) Once a year or every year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#m3)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x1)
- The dentist sees me twice a year, not yearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x2)
- The club costs £24 yearly, which is £2 a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x3)
- The school holds a yearly sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x4)
- The yearly rainfall here is very high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x5)
- Birthdays come round yearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x6)
- Then the ship’s crew returned home, and the same thing happened yearly until many years had passed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x7)

### 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 the corpora

- [In the UK, cars older than three years need a yearly test called the MOT.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/15/)
- [that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.380/)
- [And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.21/)
- [to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.167/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «yearly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.