yeartime

English

Etymology

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

Noun

yeartime (plural yeartimes)

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

yeartime (comparative more yeartime, superlative most yeartime)

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.