year-round
adjective, adverb
year-round is an adjective meaning “Operating or continuing throughout the year” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Y-E-A-R-R-O-U-N-D.
What does year-round mean?
adjective
- 1
Operating or continuing throughout the year.
This is a year-round business, so we can't afford holidays.
adverb
- 1
Continuing throughout the year.
They live year-round in Florida.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of year-round
- all-year-round
- year-around
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with year-round
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: all-year-round, year-around.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Year-round in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense continuing throughout the year:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | de año perenne, todo el año, durante todo el año |
| French | à l'année |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.