Yeartime

Origin

From year + time. Compare Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde ("season"), German Jahreszeit ("season, time of year"), Swedish årstid ("season"), English yeartide.

Full definition of yeartime

Noun

1. A time of the year; a season.
• 1910, Sallie Hoffman Perry, Poems:Asters. My dearest blossoms of the yeartime hold Scant eulogy, save wandering children's meed — All scentless ...
• 1965, Rowland L. Collins, Beowulf:..., till another yeartime came to the yards of men, as still today the weather glory-bright always keeps its seasons.
• 1985, Maureen Duffy, Collected poems:Spring that deceive and plugs that won't spark where we made not fierce summer but October soft light lit by flashes I recognize as aurora borealis, a yeartime of loving out of a fled, raw afternoon.
• 2011, Alaya Chadwick, Alaya's Fables: Tales That Transform & Awaken:There is a “Water Falls” which spills and trickles depending upon the yeartime one visits its huge boulders.
2. A year's time; the space of time equivalent to a year.
• 1953, Jack Clement Badcock, The truants:... even beetle — these thousands of pads in a yeartime of life — had matted the moss and nettle, ...

Adjective

1. Seasonal.yeartime variance
2. Of or pertaining to the timespan of a year or years; yearly.
• 2001, Sonja Sulzmaier, Consumer-oriented business design:To see how valuable a consumer segment really is, calculating such a yeartime value is obviously not sufficient.