Annals: Definition and part of speech

Annals

  1. n. pl. A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as “Annals of Science.”
  2. n. pl. A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
  3. n. pl. Historical records; chronicles; history.
  4. n. pl. The record of a single event or item.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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