annals

Borrowed from Middle French annales, from Latin annales libri (“chronicles”), from annalis (“pertaining to a year”), from annus (“year”) + libri, genitive of liber (“book”). Compare with annual.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.əlz/

annals

1. plural of annal
2. A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.

   Annals the revolution. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.

   The annals of our religion. -- Henry Rogers.

3. Historical records; chronicles; history.

   The short and simple annals of the poor. -- Thomas Gray.

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

4. A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as Annals of Science.

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