Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An annual publication including calendars with weather forecasts, astronomical information, tide tables, and other related tabular information.
- noun A usually annual reference book composed of various lists, tables, and often brief articles relating to a particular field or many general fields.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yearly calendar showing the correspondence between the days of the week and the days of the month, the rising and setting of the sun and moon, the changes of the moon and of the tides, and other astronomical data, and usually also the ecclesiastical fasts and feasts, chronological information, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.
- noun an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun astronomy, navigation A
book ortable listing nautical, astronomical, astrological or otherevents for the year; sometimes, but not essentially, containing historical and statistical information.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year
- noun an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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If you would like a guide to other documents available from this almanac information server, send the following one-line message to almanac@. esusda.gov: send ace-catalog
National Information Infrastructure On Retrieval Instructions ITY National Archives 1994
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If you would like a guide to other documents available from this almanac information server, send the following one-line message to almanac@. esusda.gov: send ace-catalog
National Information Infrastructure Retrieval Instructions ITY National Archives 1994
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And when someone said, as they always did and still do at this time of year, "I heard the almanac is predicting a lot of snow this winter," I would always say, "Which almanac?"
It's Old Farmer's Almanac time Don Lipman 2010
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I wonder if anybody on Wall Street has a sports almanac from the future hanging out of their back pocket?
‘Avatar’ Continues A Proud Hollywood Tradition Of Corporate Paranoia » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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A constellation in Hindu almanac is also named after Trishanku.
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Producers realized that casting only hot chicks in a video game related story is the same as being given a sports almanac from the future.
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Bibliodyssey blog (which recently published a wonderful book about wonderful old books!) has a post up today with scans of a geomantic almanac from the mid-1500s:
Boing Boing 2008
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This popular electronic almanac is the perfect English-language primer about Mexican history.
Navigating through the cyberspace signposts of Mexican history 2006
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This popular electronic almanac is the perfect English-language primer about Mexican history.
Navigating through the cyberspace signposts of Mexican history 2006
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It is of little moment to know whether we have the word almanac from the ancient Saxons, who could not write, or from the Arabs, who are known to have been astronomers, and to have had some acquaintance with the courses of the planets, while the western nations were still wrapped in an ignorance as great as their barbarism.
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