Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A chronological record of the events of successive years.
- noun plural A descriptive account or record; a history.
- noun plural A periodical journal in which the records and reports of a learned field are compiled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A history or relation of events recorded year by year, or connected by the order of their occurrence.
- Hence Any formal account of events, discoveries, transactions of learned societies, etc.
- Historical records generally.
- Synonyms History, Chronicle, etc. See
history , also list under chronicle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
- noun plural Historical records; chronicles; history.
- noun plural The record of a single event or item.
- noun plural A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
annal . - noun A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
- noun Historical records; chronicles; history.
- noun A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as Annals of Science.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun reports of the work of a society or learned body etc
- noun a chronological account of events in successive years
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term annals, though often confused with chronicles, nevertheless indicates a different class.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Not entirely unremembered in Alaskan annals is the summer stampede of 1898 from Fort Yukon to the bench diggings of Tarwater Hill.
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Almost all come from monastic or mendicant milieux, and are passages in annals or chronicles of the writer's abbey.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Harun al-Rashid received emissaries from the Emperor Charlemagne (See 800), a fact noted in Latin annals but not in Arabic ones.
765 2001
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Lord Bolingbroke, the Mashams, Marlboroughs, Swift, Addison, Pope, and the host of brilliant men which makes the reign of one of the feeblest women who ever sat on a throne a period of almost pre-eminent interest in English annals to men of cultivated mind subject to the influence of association.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Not entirely unremembered in Alaskan annals is the summer stampede of 1898 from Fort Yukon to the bench diggings of Tarwater Hill.
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The Pleiades are mentioned in Chinese annals in 2357 B.C.
A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904
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By grace of character she was a model constitutional sovereign, and her benign reign, the longest in English annals, contributed more than the policy of any of her ministers to make the monarchy popular and permanent.
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Joy, James Richard, 1863- 1902
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Wellington at once resumed the offensive; Ciudad Rodrigo fell before him on January twelfth, 1812, and on April eighth, after one of the bravest and bloodiest assaults recorded in English annals, Badajoz also was carried.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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They are first mentioned in Japanese annals in A.D. 549, when a number of them arrived by boat on the north of Sado Island and settled there, living on fish caught during spring and summer and salted or dried for winter use.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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