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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
annals
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the Annals of Internal Medicine
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Consider one example from the annals of air pollution: the effort to reduce the effects of car exhaust on the atmosphere.
▪ He left few marks in the annals of economic discipline.
▪ Rarely in the annals of human history has any people committed so much of its treasure to such a noble cause.
▪ The annals also recorded a war between the Romans and the Saxons.
▪ The annals of the police courts, and headlines in the newspapers, tell a rather different story.
▪ Wharton's autobiography ranks high in the annals of psychopathology.
▪ Yet it remains one of the most fondly remembered lines in the annals of Advertising.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Annals

Annals \An"nals\, n. pl. [L. annalis (sc. liber), and more frequently in the pl. annales (sc. libri), chronicles, fr. annus year. Cf. Annual.]

  1. A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. ``Annals the revolution.''
    --Macaulay. ``The annals of our religion.''
    --Rogers.

  2. Historical records; chronicles; history.

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

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

  3. sing. The record of a single event or item. ``In deathless annal.''
    --Young.

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

    Syn: History. See History.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
annals

1560s, from Latin annales libri "chronicles," literally "yearlies, yearly books," noun use of plural of annalis "pertaining to a year," from annus "year" (see annual (adj.)).

Wiktionary
annals

n. 1 (plural of annal English) 2 A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. 3 Historical records; chronicles; history. 4 A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as ''Annals of Science.''

WordNet
annals

  1. n. reports of the work of a society or learned body etc

  2. a chronological account of events in successive years [syn: chronological record]

Wikipedia
Annals

Annals (, from , "year") are properly a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record.

Annals (Tacitus)

The Annals by Roman historian and senator Tacitus is a history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius to that of Nero, the years AD 14–68. The Annals are an important source to modern understanding of the history of the Roman Empire during the first century; it is Tacitus' final work, and modern historians generally consider it his greatest writing. Historian Ronald Mellor calls it "Tacitus's crowning achievement" which represents the "pinnacle of Roman historical writing".

Tacitus' Histories and Annals together amounted to 30 books; although some scholars disagree about which work to assign some books to, traditionally 14 are assigned to Histories and 16 to Annals. Of the 30 books referred to by Jerome about half have survived.

Modern scholars believe that as a Roman senator, Tacitus had access to Acta Senatus—the Roman senate's records—which provided a solid basis for his work. Although Tacitus refers to part of his work as "my annals", the title of the work Annals used today was not assigned by Tacitus himself, but derives from its year-by-year structure. The name of the current manuscript seems to be "Books of History from the Death of the Divine Augustus" ().

Usage examples of "annals".

The Irish certainly resisted, and their annals from 807 onwards are full of battles with the Norwegians pressing in from the sea: battles which, if we are to believe the chroniclers, the Irish frequently won.

The St Vaast Annals cease about 900, and the monk of Reims, Flodoard, does not begin his narrative until some twenty years later.

The location of the harbour of Sliesthorp which, according to the annals, was used by Godfred, is uncertain, but as it must have been protected by his new wall it was probably somewhere on the north side of the Slie, near the present Gottorp or Slesvig.

Declan refrained from recording the rumors in the Annals of Kill Dalua, but other annalists would be less generous.

Her annals, if some clerk had set them down, would be precious as illuminating many a dark corridor in the domestic palaces of the Plantagenets.

They disclosed nothing, and the chroniclers of events in Normandy dared not set down in their annals any of the circumstances that may have come to their hearing.

In the annals of the abby of Margain in far-off Wales, a monk set down in the chronicles of his monastery the story as he had heard it perhaps considerably after the occurrence, from some source now suspected of being Guillaume de Braose or Hubert de Burgh, or some of their followings.

Likewise, the Swords gradually disappeared, one by one, until finally, the last of the mythical blades slipped mysteriously into the annals of history, three thousand years ago.

The fall of the Finlorian Empire had formed a void in the annals of history, both oral and written.

Egypt, I think it necessary to subjoin an history of two others of the like stamp, who have made no less figure in the annals of Babylon and Assyria.

A like anticipation, amounting to a great many centuries, is to be found in the annals of the Babylonians.

I have been obliged to make concerning some of the principal personages in the annals of Greece.

Roman annals to discover three inconsiderable rebellions, which were all suppressed in a few months, and without even the hazard of a battle.

The annals of the emperors exhibit a strong and various picture of human nature, which we should vainly seek among the mixed and doubtful characters of modern history.

But when they recollected the sanguinary list of murders, of executions, and of massacres, which stain almost every page of the Jewish annals, they acknowledged that the barbarians of Palestine had exercised as much compassion towards their idolatrous enemies, as they had ever shown to their friends or countrymen.