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# yearly

adjective (yearly); adverb (yearly)

«yearly» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Happening once every year: a yearly visit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#m1)
2. For one whole year: a yearly cost. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#m2)
3. (adverb) Once a year or every year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#m3)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x1)
- The dentist sees me twice a year, not yearly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x2)
- The club costs £24 yearly, which is £2 a month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x3)
- The school holds a yearly sports day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x4)
- The yearly rainfall here is very high. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/#x5)
- Birthdays come round yearly. [tree →](https://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://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 Jewish tradition

It often refers to a set event that happens once every year, such as a festival, a pilgrimage, or a sacrifice.

**Interpretation.** Yearly rites such as Elkanah's trip to Shiloh and the days of Purim in Esther are remembered each year. Tradition holds that repeating them keeps the memory of events alive.

### Examples

- that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. (Prophets JDG.11.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Y/yearly/#x1)
- And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. (Prophets 1SA.1.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Y/yearly/#x2)
- to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, (Writings EST.9.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Y/yearly/#x3)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «yearly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«yearly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/yearly.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «yearly» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Y/yearly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«yearly» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/yearly.html) on Mova free.