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Annual   /ˈænjuəl/   Listen
adjective
Annual  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. "The annual overflowing of the river (Nile)."
2.
Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth. "A thousand pound a year, annual support."
3.
Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.


noun
Annual  n.  
1.
A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
2.
Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant. "Oaths... in some sense almost annuals;... and I myself can remember about forty different sets."
3.
(R. C. Ch.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.





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"Annual" Quotes from Famous Books



... forward again, and ere long, having traversed Mampon's country, entered the capital of King Prempeh, slaves to be sacrificed at the great annual custom. ...
— The Great White Queen - A Tale of Treasure and Treason • William Le Queux
... be an Annual Exhibition of fruit and flowers, at which all the Colonists who have a plot of garden of their own will take part. They will exhibit their fruit and vegetables as well as their rabbits, their poultry and all the other live-stock of the ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth
... of Congress providing for detailed reports from the different Departments of the Government require their submission at the beginning of the regular annual session, I defer until that time any further reference to ...
— Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes - A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents • James D. Richardson
... in the proper use of our libraries are asking continually, "What do readers read?" and the tables of class-percentages in the annual reports of those institutions show that librarians are at least making an attempt to satisfy these queries. But a question that is still more fundamental and quite as vital is: Do readers read at all? This is not a paradox, but a common-sense question, ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner


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