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English

Noun

annals

  • plural of annal

Noun

annals pl (plural only)

  • A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
    • ✤ So ended this great siege, the most memorable in the annals of the British isles. It had lasted a hundred and five days1
    • ✤ the annals of our religion2
  • Historical records; chronicles; history.
    • ✤ the short and simple annals of the poor3
    • ✤ It was one of the most critical periods in our annals.4
  • A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.
    • ✤ * Annals of Science*

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French annales, from Latin annālēs librī (“chronicles”), from annālis (“pertaining to a year”), from annus (“year”) + librī, plural of liber (“book”). Compare with annual.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæn.əlz/
    • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈæn.əlz/, (/æ/raising) [ˈɛən.əlz]
    • Audio (Texas): 🔊
  • (Australian) IPA: /ˈæn.əlz/, (/æ/raising) [ˈeːn.əlz]
  • (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈɛn.əlz/
  • Rhymes: -ænəlz

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Footnotes

  1. 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC: ↩

  2. a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency with Regard to Mens Stations in Life adjusted and recommended: ↩

  3. 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: ↩

  4. 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech at the Guildhall, in Bristol: ↩

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