Annals
WordNet
noun
(1) A chronological account of events in successive years
(2) Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Latin annalis and more frequently in the plural annales (sc. libri), chronicles, from . Compare with annual.
Noun
annals
- A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
- Annals the revolution. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- The annals of our religion. -- Henry Rogers.
- Historical records; chronicles; history.
- The short and simple annals of the poor. -- Thomas Gray.
- It was one of the most critical periods in our annals. -- Edmund Burke.
- A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as Annals of Science.