annus
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- noun
- /ˈænəs/
- Specialized
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año
- Ten o'clock saw me pushing down the staircase of the subway station at 206th Street as I had taught myself to do during my annus mirabilis.
- annus mirabilis
Examples
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The enthusiasm generated in the annus mirabilis of 1989 was supposed to lead to the decisive and rapid integration of Western Europe.
Academic text (1992) -
Consider another famous paper from his annus mirabilis, the 1905 paper on the photon hypothesis, which explained the photoelectric effect by quantizing the way electromagnetic energy lives in free space.
Academic text (2005) -
The consequences, for good and ill, of that annus mirabilis of discovery and invention are still very much with us.
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Six Nobel Prizes are directly traceable to the work done in that one annus mirabilis.
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He was both excited about the travel and very sanguine about the global prospects opened during the annus mirabilis of 2011.
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It may seem presumptuous to talk of mistakes made by such a towering figure, especially in the centenary of his annus mirabilis.
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With the annus mirabilis, the countries of Eastern Europe, and in some respects the East more generally, began to dismantle most vestiges of communist rule, including the one-party state and its planned economy and administration.
Academic text (1994) -
In the summer of that annus mirabilis of 1989, just before the Velvet Revolution and while he was still a dissident, Havel wrote a remarkable speech, which he gave in his acceptance of the German Booksellers Peace Prize.
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In 1905, his annus mirabilis, the twenty-six-year-old Einstein published three papers on three different subjects—relativity was one—each of which could have won him a Nobel.
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Last year was an annus horribilis, filled with many challenges and unexpected events.
Synonyms
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1.0
A period of months used for a specific activity like school or company accounts
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A year often used to show an amount per year, for example pay or fees
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word annus is the Latin word for 'year' and is the root of English words like annual and anniversary. So, an annual event happens once every 'year'.