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annals

annals

4 7.8
Records or journals that list events year by year
  • noun
  • /ˈænəlz/
translation icon : anales
  • But a recent article in The Annals of Internal Medicine made me rethink that approach.
  • Annals of the Association
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Annals of Neurology

I mean a fart catcher, but in the annals of science, it's right up the middle.

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Examples

  • The Turkish name for the shaman, qam kam, is attested in the Tang Annals on the subject of the Kirghiz.

    Academic text (1996)
  • My goal isn't for this to be echoed in the annals of history.

  • But night, specifically tonight is an historic night in the annals of television.

  • But we ended up with a fantastic piece of journalism or that I think that we'll go down in the annals, the annals of history.

  • Tall's expedition is part of this process and proves as dramatic as any tail in the annals of polar exploration.

  • Clifford J. Cunningham, a science writer and author of Mercury's regular "Annals of Astronomy," observed the Mercury transit of 1970.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Dr. Franklin's articles have appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Current Psychiatry, Comprehensive Psychiatry, and other journals.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Omernik, J. M. 1987. Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77(1): 118-125.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Garmezy, N. (1991a). Resilience in children's adaptation to negative life events and stressed environments. Pediatric Annals, 20(9), 459-466.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The historical documents were stored carefully in the annals of the university library.

Synonyms

journal
vsannals
27 3.6

A book for writing money transactions in time order

is a formal record arranged year by year for organizations
1 5.0

A list that shows events in the order they happened, often with dates

is used for official yearly records and organizational publications

How Detailed

annals
4 7.8
history
899 1.0
chronicle
95 5.8
account
466 3.0
summary
3.3

Surface Forms

annals singular
annals plural

Morphology

annals = annal (transparent) = annal + s

A regular plural formation from the noun 'annal', so the plural meaning is directly derived from the singular.

Etymology

Annals comes from the Latin annus meaning 'year', and the same root appears in annual and anniversary. So annals are records kept 'year by year', like a history or journal that lists what happened each year.