Yearful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Yearful is a noun meaning The amount that occurs in a year; a year's worth (of something).
Meaning
The amount that occurs in a year; a year's worth (of something).
More Meanings
- (rare) Full of years; elderly; aged.
Example Sentences
[…] but into the quiet haunts of the yearful ones ye cannot as yet hope for admission.
Pity the yearful tree, green branches torn, fronting to-morrow's winds because it must.
He had three yearsful of news to relate and in it all not a word of discouragement, but enthusiasm for what has already been done and plans for what is yet to be done.
This is what I have been saying in these eight and twenty volumes of collected works and in this yearful of newspaper articles, and after a rest it is quite possible I shall go on saying it some more.
Word Forms
- yearfuls
- yearsful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include yearsworth, yearer, monthful, centuryful, annum, volume.
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