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Noun (plural)
/ˈanlz/,
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annals, plural;
  1. A record of events year by year
    • - eighth-century Northumberland annals
  2. Historical records
    • - the annals of the famous European discoverers
    • - the deed will live forever in the annals of infamy
  3. Used in the titles of learned journals
    • - Annals of Internal Medicine
  1. reports of the work of a society or learned body etc
  2. a chronological account of events in successive years
  3. Annals (Latin Annales, from annus, a year) are a concise form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year.
  4. The Annals (Annales) is a history book by Tacitus covering the reign of the four Roman Emperors succeeding to Caesar Augustus. The parts of the work that survived from antiquity cover most of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero.
  5. A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened; Historical records; chronicles; history; A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as Annals of Science
  6. used in the titles of learned journals:Annals of Internal Medicine
  7. North British Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, with portraits and biographical notes, 1768–1903, comp. J. S. Macdonald ([3rd ed.], Halifax, 1905).
  8. A periodical in which the transactions of a society or organization, or events and developments in a specific discipline or field of study, are recorded (example: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, published since 1890). ...