annals
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
annals
NounEdit
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, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- 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.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- 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.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.
- Annals of Science
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
a relation of events
historical records; chronicles
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EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
annals m pl (plural only)
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Further readingEdit
- “annals” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “annals” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “annals” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “annals” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.