Meaning of year-rounder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who lives in a place throughout the year (as opposed to a seasonal vacationer).
2. Something suitable for use throughout the year.

Examples

“1921, The Literary Digest, Volume 69, 30 April, 1921, “Nantucket’s Losing Fight⟳ against the Motor-Car,” p. 48, Next “season” this order⟳ [banning cars] was modified to cover⟳ only the summer months—a safe enough proviso, since no year-rounder had descended to interest⟳ in motor-driven vehicles.”

“That’s how you could tell⟳ the newcomers from the old-timers among the summer people—anyone who called it Spiro’s wasn’t around two summers ago. Of course, the all-year-rounders called the place⟳ by its original name⟳, Smith’s Dock.”

“[…] many year-rounders have⟳ a lot of friends who are part-time Florida residents and who they miss⟳ during the off-season.”

“The few families who owned holiday homes were at the top, then came those who could afford⟳ to put⟳ up at hotels […] then there were the house renters, and then us. All-the-year-rounders did not figure⟳ in this hierarchy; villagers in general […] were a class apart, their presence no more than the blurred background to our intenser, sun-shone-upon doings.”

“Herbs have⟳ their season, they sing⟳ of spring⟳! The onion is an all-year-rounder, but in winter, above all, it is a little of the earth’s springtime preserved in its fleshy bulb.”

“The Holy Grail is a suit⟳ that earns the privilege of becoming a “year-rounder”—that is, light⟳ enough to breathe⟳ comfortably in the summer months but with ample girth to get⟳ its wearer through a winter in the Great Lakes region.”

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