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/ˈænəlz/ Listen

noun

Annals n. pl.

A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." "The annals of our religion."

Historical records; chronicles; history. "The short and simple annals of the poor." "It was one of the most critical periods in our annals."

sing. The record of a single event or item. "In deathless annal."

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

Synonyms: History. See History.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... for their rapacity, and through it they became formidable and desperate foes to the enemy. They were the terror of the ranchoes, the inhabitants fled at their approach; their pillage, rapine, and slaughtering, would stain the annals of barbarous Africa. They are buried, let us hope for the name of a great nation, that they may remain beneath the ...

— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams

... the European Union (EU) from a regional economic agreement among six neighboring states in 1951 to today's supranational organization of 27 countries across the European continent stands as an unprecedented phenomenon in the annals of history. Dynastic unions for territorial consolidation were long the norm in Europe. On a few occasions even country-level unions were arranged - the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were examples - but for such a large number of ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... that was Kresnuk, famous in the annals of the time, said aloud, 'I'm amazed at the pertinacity of this barber! To my court he came, searching some silly nephew, and would have shaved us all in spite of our noses; yea, talked my chief Vizier into a dead sleep, and so thinned him. And there was no safety from him save ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... at the foot of the Col de Roncevalles leading into Spain (1,057 metres). The pass has ever been celebrated in the annals of war, from the days of the Paladin Roland to those of Marechal Soult's attack on ...

— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

... man, knowing, for a long time and by tradition, the manners and ways of prisons, overcame his weakness, and wished to appear worthy of a name already celebrated in the annals of ...

— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue

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