Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overyear

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
overyear
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Kept over from the previous year.

British usage

verb

To keep (seed, etc.) from the previous year.

British usage; Transitive verb

Etymology

From over- + year.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

overyears (present, singular) overyearing (participle, present) overyeared (participle, past) overyeared (past)

Questions

What does overyear mean?
Kept over from the previous year.
Where does overyear come from?
From over- + year.

How to pronounce overyear

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