Year-around or year-round?
year-around is an adjective meaning “Alternative form of year-round”; year-round is an adjective meaning “Operating or continuing throughout the year”.
What is the difference between year-around and year-round?
| year-around | year-round | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | adjective, adverb |
| Meaning | Alternative form of year-round | Operating or continuing throughout the year Continuing throughout the year |
| Example | none recorded | This is a year-round business, so we can't afford holidays |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | not counted (the list counts single words) |
Sources: year-around and year-round in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of year-around and year-round
year-around
- 1
Alternative form of year-round
year-round
- 1
Operating or continuing throughout the year
This is a year-round business, so we can't afford holidays
- 2
Continuing throughout the year
They live year-round in Florida
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.