annals

English edit

Borrowed from Middle French annales, from Latin annales libri (“chronicles”), from annalis (“pertaining to a year”), from annus (“year”) + libri, genitive of liber (“book”). Compare with annual.

annals

annals pl (plural only)

A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  So ended this great siege, the most memorable in the annals of the British isles. It had lasted a hundred and five days
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency with Regard to Mens Stations in Life adjusted and recommended:
  the annals of our religion
Historical records; chronicles; history.
- 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:
  the short and simple annals of the poor
- 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech at the Guildhall, in Bristol:
  It was one of the most critical periods in our annals.
A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.
Annals of Science

a relation of events

historical records; chronicles

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bashkir: йылъяҙма (yılʺyaźma) (yearly)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 史書／史书 (zh) (shǐshū)
Dutch: annalen (nl) pl, jaarboeken (nl) pl
Finnish: annaali (fi), historiankirjat pl
French: annales (fr) f pl
German: Annalen (de) f pl
Macedonian: анали m pl (anali), летопис m (letopis), хроника f (hronika)
Polish: annały (pl) f pl
Portuguese: anais (pt) m pl
Romanian: anale (ro) n pl
Russian: анна́лы (ru) m pl (annály), ле́топись (ru) f (létopisʹ), хро́ника (ru) f (xrónika)
Spanish: anales (es) m pl, crónica (es) f

annals m pl (plural only)