annals

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.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.əlz/

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• Rhymes: -ænəlz

annals

1. plural of annal

annals pl (plural only)

1. A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     So ended this great siege, the most memorable in the annals of the British isles. It had lasted a hundred and five days

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

     the annals of our religion

2. Historical records; chronicles; history.
   • 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:

     the short and simple annals of the poor

   • 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech at the Guildhall, in Bristol:

     It was one of the most critical periods in our annals.

3. A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.

   Annals of Science

• history

Borrowed from Latin annālēs.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ənˈnals]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [anˈnals]

annals m pl (plural only)

1. annals

• any
• anyal

• “annals”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “annals”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “annals” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “annals” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.