year-rounder

English

Alternative forms

• all-the-year-rounder, all-year-rounder

Etymology

year-round +‎ -er (occupational suffix) or +‎ -er (relational suffix)

Noun

year-rounder (plural year-rounders)

1. A person who lives in a place throughout the year (as opposed to a seasonal vacationer). [from early 20th c.]

   Synonym: local

   Coordinate terms: snowbird, summerite, sunbird

   • 1921, The Literary Digest, Volume 69, 30 April, 1921, “Nantucket’s Losing Fight against the Motor-Car,” p. 48,^[1]

     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.

   • 1981, Robert Lipsyte, Summer Rules,‎^[2], New York: Harper & Row, page 88:

     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.

   • 1991, Barbara Brumm LaFreniere, Edward N. LaFreniere, chapter 2, in The Complete Guide to Life in Florida‎^[3], Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, page 21:

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

   • 2005, John Banville, The Sea‎^[4], London: Picador, Part 1, pp.108-109:

     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.

2. Something suitable for use throughout the year.
   • 1973, Robert Courtine, The Hundred Glories of French Cooking‎^[5], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 330:

     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.

   • 2004, Peter Hyman, The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life‎^[6], New York: Villard Books, Chapter , p. 237:

     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.