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A person who lives in a place throughout the year (as opposed to a seasonal vacationer)..
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.
Use year-rounder when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Year-rounder means A person who lives in a place throughout the year (as opposed to a seasonal vacationer)..
Common synonyms include local.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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